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is daytime. A group of men laughing in unison, while the truck that transported the course leads to his amusement. His words of gibberish is not understood, but denote joy, satisfaction and joy. The truck stops and men toiling down, while the shouts and laughter become more intense.

The viewer will soon see the reason for his joy, when in the hands of one man is a resident of the street, with a look of confusion deepens as it hit, insult , and screaming. The scene is repeated and again: the 'poor' are persecuted, threatened, beaten with stones, undressed, wet, humiliated. The men laugh. (see video)

is day again. Three men are just as happy to previous How to describe such high levels of joy! The enjoyment you live close to the surface, although we are not there with them. Hermoso video appeal: we can show vividly convey the joy and feelings this trio of psychopaths to torture a dog, who dies and ends up hanged in a hole, listening on the eve of breath heavy laughter.

In these men, players of different situations, but with similar characteristics, there are more commonalities than those described above. They are not part of social welfare ministries, are not part of any humane society, are not part (if there's restlessness) of former Convivir groups undertaking such activities without any retaliation from justice. (see video)

are part, as you know the public aware of the institution called the protection of colombianos, a la defensa del patrimonio y la integridad común, a la protección de los derechos humanos, tan pisoteados por ellos, sus legítimos defensores.

Miembros de la Policía se ven una vez más involucrados en escándalos de abusos del poder. Pero para suerte de ellos y de la institución que representan, los nuevos abusos no tienen como víctimas a animales indefensos, ni mucho menos a personas. Los vulnerados son indigentes.

Y no me malinterpreten,  no es que tenga la certeza de que los habitantes de calle son menos que animales y menos que personas. Todavía I have the doubt, because Colombia is a society that cries, protests and condemns the police for mistreatment of a bitch but that, given the abuse of several human beings, can only give a small voice of rejection.

the dog's death by three policemen wounded was a fact that all kinds of sensibilities. Within hours crammed social networks, and repudiation of comments the next day, the murder became a phenomenon that pervaded all media: radio, print, television.

5 minutes of torture canine achieved what could not be more than 10 minutes of multiple abuse in humans: increasing the sensitivity of the Colombian people, capable of exploding with tears solo a bitch, but immovable when confronted with massacres and rape.

The consequences of this lethargy of the public are often the same: General Oscar Naranjo out on TV saying that the necessary corrective measures be taken to find the perpetrators of these "moles" within the institution . And if we allow comparison histrionic, moles of the National Police would raise the suspicion of a dangerous virus "Dalmatians.

Diseases s like this, appearing ever more frequently in the media, can not be solved with small press or with the occasional reaction of citizens in social networks. The abuse that we are witnessing (and sometimes victims) requires a social cleansing and animal to the Police, an institution that seems to have no psychological or filter (let me so bold) biological.

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Is there conflict in Colombia? Ideas

The pronouncement of President Juan Manuel Santos, perceiving in Victims Act the existence of an armed conflict in Colombia, sparked a controversy at odds with the precepts of democratic security.

As expected, the leading opponent of such recognition was the former president, Alvaro Uribe Velez, who said on Twitter that "recognition of the conflict is to recognize the legitimacy of the terrorists." Santos met him immediately to the criticism, noting that his decision has nothing to do with the Colombian guerrillas to political status.

However, despite strong manifestaciones de Uribe y la firme posición de Santos, éste es un debate en el cual existe una teorización bien construida que deja a uno de los dos con clara desventaja en la exposición sus argumentos.

El Comité Internacional de la Cruz Roja (CICR), en un documento publicado en 2008 y titulado “¿Cuál es la definición de "conflicto armado" según el Derecho Internacional Humanitario?”, despeja muchas de las dudas y confusiones que el ex presidente Uribe ha querido  sembrar al revivir esta discusión. Allí se citan los Convenios de Ginebra de 1949 (de los cuáles Colombia hace parte) para explicar en qué condiciones se considera that a country suffers from what is known as NIAC (NIAC).

As is well exposed in the article, the term armed conflict in which a dispute "involving one or more non-governmental armed groups." But it also gives the title to the territory where the government is fighting other armed groups, a hierarchical and territorial domain. The same happens when the state "has to resort to military force against the insurgents, instead of relying solely on the police force."

Considering the current state of order American public, there are great similarities between the Geneva Conventions and the armed conflict in Colombia, since long before the government of Alvaro Uribe, Colombia has been the scene of territorial disputes that have faced guerrillas and right-wing armies as the AUC.

However, the former president uses his achievements of "eradication" of the paramilitaries to clarify that such disputes are "a thing of the past." Argument does not work for you, if you consider that an armed conflict also occurs when military forces fighting the insurgency, as explains the ICRC.

Uribe would have to deny, then, the existence of a hierarchical and the FARC guerrillas, fighting the organization and employment of the Armed Forces of Colombia (pillar of security democratic) to fight against what he called terrorism.

But it does not, not only because he knows that is not true, but because it is aware that it would disrupt the reckless speech has given him so many followers. That is why , despite knowing the implications the conflict, prefer to change the label, creating misinformation in the national public opinion and creating a climate of fear among Colombians.

This does not mean he is unaware of the Geneva Conventions, but prefers to ignore. And ignored the recidivism schematic of paramilitaries in Colombia and the killing of the Armed Forces who, incidentally, also fall into the triggers for recognition of the conflict.

However, his recent pronouncements have a different character verging on helplessness, it is not Uribe, who makes the decisions, but Santos. And with the recognition that the President made the conflict not only reaffirms the distance with the previous government, but evidence of a change in national security policy, more respectful of the ICRC and international humanitarian law.

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(for more on armed conflict, visit the blog of Daniel Afanador)

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Discovery is a vague word that is heard with eager enthusiasm. And often create the world that the five syllables that wrapped up promising results. Not, nor vice versa. Discovery is only one word out of context can only cause intrigue. And the plot is nothing but uncertainty and limbo, rubber expands or shrinks depending on the hand that takes.

Now you can feel that there are two bodies with their hands taking that word and transform their own way and accept it as a gift or an unpleasant surprise and make her the best interest.

Start by evil discovery is necessary to thus not have to accompany the end of this (I do not know what it is but it looks like a letter) with bitter words and ideas, whose only result would leave the useless feeling that nothing was done when situations allowed.

is possible, then a minute later to write, or a week or a year (because the guarantee period is not to forget) is one of regret not taking advantage of the time, which seems as infinite, but when it comes up is a fleeting instant which are only regrets.

And the only certainty in these words is that the lament appears at once, immediately and without preamble when given the discovery that you know you're going. Knowing is not the most appropriate word, always knew, I always asked and always returned to forget. Maybe because what you do not want to be ignored, waiting for the moment it disappears.

may have never contemplated, much less an absence of nostalgia, and now I know that proximity is the best distraction of closeness. That's why we never saw: a generally postpone what seems possible and forward it to thought impossible.

But what better success than I'd seen once. There I realized that welfare has nothing to do with places, but with the company. Conversations have never been to my taste became more pleasant, because your mouth out excited discussions, arguments, looked through the eyes of those who want to devour the world.

And here comes the second discovery, the happy, cherished, yours. That discovery has already begun to take shape, knowing the land, flooding it with your steps and open the mind to new ways of seeing that will feed look that one day I saw and made me feel amazing momentum.

Selfishness is a very human characteristic that can not come to wish that none of the two discoveries. And like you taught me, many abstract forms, the value of solidarity, I can only ignore the selfish and ask you to let me see the world again with your eyes, because life has no draws and only A third discovery may tilt the balance in terms happier.

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God and Math

is not difficult to predict forward to the new atheists jump if an orthodox Christian theologian would recognize that the notion that God is three in one, Typically can be labeled as "irrational" . Or that the doctrine of the Trinity is far beyond our habitual ways of thinking that you can refer to the three persons of the Trinity as "imaginary." However, mathematicians sometimes quite unapologetically talk about numbers " imaginary "and" irrational ". Moreover, they merely assume that if others think they have what it fell into the folly, so much the worse for them.

At the heart of Daniel J. Cohen in his informative book Welcome, Equations from God: Pure Mathematics and Victory of Faith, is a story of how in the middle of the 19th century, leading American mathematicians to be convinced that their discipline reinforced the belief God. One such figure was Benjamin Peirce , Harvard professor sometimes referred to as the father of pure mathematics in America. "(He was also the father of Charles Sanders Peirce, the eminent philosopher and scholar.) In a charming account of his life and thought, Cohen notes that "the fascination with imaginary quantities seized Peirce as a child." (Son of Peirce recalled that his father had a "superstitious reverence by the square root of minus one.")

Peirce was thoroughly imbued with the conviction that the Almighty revealed their discipline and their thoughts. He noted that mathematics should be seen as akin to the burning bush, a source of divine revelation which continues as it burns. In his lectures, after a triumphant mathematical proof involved, Professor Peirce was soon known pronounced, "Gentlemen, you must be a God!" Did I mention I was completely serious?

One of the friends was Peirce Thomas Hill, president of Harvard for most of the 1860's. "Hill conversion to this way of thinking was meditating on Euclid lazy on a summer day:" Reflecting on geometric assumptions, the empiricist ...

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What revelations? Everything has been said

ago a month, when The Spectator became known through chronicles his director, Fidel Cano Correa, the partnership between the newspaper and Wikileaks, a sector of the national public opinion was encouraged by the revelations that the organization, led by Julian Assange could bring to the country.

Since then, the media highlighted the scoop ostentatious way of cables that Wikileaks had on Colombia, and made a structural deployment to support the flood of information coming uphill. Wednesdays were set aside for leaks involving national policy and web portal aside a section dedicated to the topic.

The revelations were immediate: paramilitary links upper echelons of national politics, distrust between Alvaro Uribe and Hugo Chávez, relations between the DAS and demobilized members of the "extinct" United Self-Defense Forces of Colombia and attempts to silence political opposition, not only persecution orchestrated by the government, but with counter-claims 'diplomatic'.

The reader will look suspicious with some suspicion the preceding paragraph and if you stop to watch a little make an unavoidable question: What revelations? Many of the cables related to Colombia are a confirmation of 'public secret', shouting truths which had already been disseminated not only by El Espectador, but news that even (albeit with less coverage) are related to the government.

However, the stain of these new publications is different now. They are Jorge Robledo, and Daniel Coronell, much less Piedad Córdoba that are concerned about the deterioration of the institutional national. It is the government of the United States through their ambassadors and State Department stated (in secret of course) the seriousness of the facts mentioned above.

Wikileaks has served, then, as the fan that helps to spread the rotten stench of a pot open much earlier. And there are so many directions of spread of plague, that those who we feel how we smell the rot will spread cushioning the more and more people.

hopes that a month ago and were planted on Wikileaks The Spectator today does not seem to be many social networks and perceived a marked decrease in the number of cable related links.

This disinterest is almost à déj vu, something known to our country, the mirror of our reality. Is a product of the same attitude that sparked fury by dogs and owls, by peasants killed by journalists pursued and children raped by politicians bought by corrupt businessmen, and negotiated tenders. All these situations do not sound today, no offense and apparently hardly matter.

Wikileaks is a chapter of our forgotten history, written every Wednesday with great fanfare, but at this rate will disappear, because in Colombia the concern for victims, corruption and abuse revived only when movie times poignantly tell of the reality of everyday life.

is why today, weeks after the famous meeting with Fidel Cano Julian Assange, we are witnessing the repeated neglect of our society. That illusory hope of finding in the hand cables we remove the blindfold has been to see. Wikileaks And meanwhile, with its depth developer, has completed a double and valuable work: to confirm the rot in our country and, incidentally, confirm the weakness of our public and emotional people.


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In political seems that in the good proposals, major reforms and government programs that offer profound solutions to the complex problems of our cities. So, or most of the voters (the Medellin in this case) go to the polls like cattle to follow a path of fence that leads, inevitably, to a certain death.

is not pleasant to think about the second option, nor optimistic about the fate of our city, which for a couple of years passed from hope to fear and not fear to hope as appellant was heard in the speeches of the former mayor, Sergio Fajardo Valderrama.

However, the data and realize the popular rumor that citizens countries choose a advance worrying who occupy public office tomorrow, without looking or even what is the policy proposal of potential applicants.

Today, 7 months know who will lead the Mayor of Medellín and lead complicated processes and the implementation of Metroplús, 70% of the inhabitants of this city and know who to vote for: Aníbal Gaviria, a former candidate for vice president of the country, is winning the game with 23% of likely voters, Luis Perez (controversial former mayor of Medellín) takes second place with 20% and Gabriel Jaime Rico, candidate of the Partido de la U, is third with just over 9%.

Another candidate on the deck is Juan Felipe Campuzano, who (with 4% acceptance) aims to take the title of mayor, based on wink tricky political strategy a few weeks ago gave Uribe, saying he "is the general need Medellin." Pretentious claim that implements the idea of \u200b\u200bcreating a micro-democratic security adapted to the city, reducing potential solutions to an issue of police authority.

These data, released by the University of Medellín and media such as Radio Super, are alarming, not because of who will lead the survey (although the presence of Luis Perez left serious concerns) but by haste with which the citizens of Medellín decide what the best course for the city.

Undoubtedly, the countries' decisions are not based on policy proposals, but a combination of traditional and new popularity affinities. Yet given the first debate, yet the candidates have left the media to present their proposals and even the websites of the candidates (those) are not set to work in his campaign for mayor.

The city faces major crisis (mobility, employment, security) and was recently revealed by the UN between Medellin and Villavicencio are made 40% of cases of enforced disappearances in the country. And although neither candidate has said something about the Medellín seem to know who has the best solution for this problem, although it not yet been made public.

The current situation goes back to not so long ago, when a certain candidate won the most votes in the history of the Mayor of Medellin. His proposal was continuity and their endorsement was the image of his predecessor, who by his actions convinced the city that Alonso Salazar was a great replacement.

Now Salazar is an unpopular mayor who not only branded as a bad administrator, but bohemian and drunk (another voter assessments paisa banal.) It was useless their great support in the polls to restore confidence in the electorate and, as a result, the city has returned to think Luis Perez, a character who left a lamentable history after administration.

however, wants to repeat history and the capital of Antioquia returns to his old political practices, bureaucratic alliances, votes for tradition and image. The conscience is for that small 21% who admits not knowing whom to vote, and probably will join sooner or later that bidder to bring the best smile, best makeup and (of course) the most striking phrase.

Then, the title of this column will take courage, not because the mayor is already decided, but because the words spoken so far are more than enough to win the race for mayor, a institution that can achieved with a well-written line.


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were within their rights to citizens on Friday left a again against the FARC. About 300 people raised their voices to condemn el hecho de que este grupo subversivo siga utilizando a la población colombiana como la carnada para chantajear al Estado y conseguir sus objetivos, que hoy no parecen ser tan políticos.

Hicieron bien al demostrarle al país que el olvido es uno de los peores enemigos de los compatriotas secuestrados, y que no hacen falta íconos (como Ingrid Betancur) para que a un pueblo le duela el maltrato y la tortura ajena.

Sin embargo, esta marcha tuvo un sesgo, no porque sus asistentes tuvieran un interés de  particular de influencia política sobre el resto de la población, sino porque is the result of a focused discourse that aims to highlight a part of the Colombian conflict, so that all turn their attention to her.

That part is certainly the FARC, a guerrilla who kills, robs, kidnaps and threatens the human rights of Colombians. But that is not the only group outside the law, who exercises this type of crime, because in Colombia there are also paramilitaries (or BACRIM, as they now wished to draw), the ELN and crime

" is a need for people to rebel, shake, to liberate the social cancer that has over 40 years, "organizers said to justify the march. But they forgot that along with the birth of the Colombian guerrillas came paramilitary groups who made a bloody persecution and rearranged the puzzle of the country's land, favoring the elites related to their criminal activities.

Other voices used the arguments of peace and the immediate cessation of the kidnapping to support the march, falling in the illusory hope of finding harmony in Colombia in the defeat of this group guerrilla. It hopes to sell the eyes who celebrate the death of every subversive and the opposition are in a "military target."

is time that the country will remove the bandage from the eyes, and let's see how the FARC single enemy. We have been more than a decade protesting the same thing in a speech that does not evolve, that does not cover all of our problems and marginalized victims of other sides, making them invisible to our eyes.

is no doubt that the Colombian society needs a 'electric shock' you lift the lethargy. It is urgent to cram the streets and join, critically, the ideas of rejection against all our tumors: corruption, violence, displacement, guerrillas, paramilitary gangs, delinquency, cronyism, injustice and the long list that concerns us.

However, Colombia is a land full of isolated efforts to solve their problems. And this is perhaps one of the main barriers to be overcome, if there is a real desire to realize all the demagogic words that appear every time the people was gathered in the streets.


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No justice no peace

was once a troubled country with a historical mining of massacres and political abuses, which ushered in the bipolar confrontation embodied in military and paramilitary guerrillas, with their guns and chainsaws paid to dead mass graves and cemeteries.

After more than 5 decades of violence, that country (which we will call Colombia) signed a law that sheltered under the principle of opportunity for some side of the armed conflict, providing criminal indulgences to its members, provided that they reveal the truth about the crimes they had perpetrated.

Colombia passed a law (call for Justice and Peace) is not only hoping to re-enter civilian life more than 30 000 combatants, but also to provide full reparation to victims the conflict, which for decades sought the truth about their deaths and the recovery of the territories that violence had taken.

However, five years after entry into force of Justice and Peace, the hopes in the process became diluted to the incontrovertible results of their failure. The country was, then, how recidivism and corruption gave severe blows to the law, but mostly saw the judicial ineffectiveness buried the hopes of redress and justice for thousands of victims.

emerging in a fable you can count the transitional justice process undertaken by Colombia in the midst of the government of Alvaro Uribe, who sought to portray itself as the hero of peace, under the banner of a law today show the consequences of a rocky road traveled barefoot.

4,511 authors from 52 thousand crimes, and only 3 convictions is the result which gives us a draft "national reconciliation", whose components are now called into question, as far be sentenced for their heinous crimes, the Colombian paramilitaries took the legal inefficiency to dominate at will statements and tarnished its mafia state bodies.

Desde las alcaldías de pequeños poblados, hasta el sótano de cierta casa presidencial fueron visitados por agentes de la subversión ultraderechista, mientras que el Estado declaraba de manera indirecta su incompetencia para manejar un proceso de dicha magnitud.

Sin lugar a dudas, uno de los actos que encarna a la perfección esta idea fue la extradición de los principales cabecillas de las Autodefensas, una decisión presidencial que echó por la borda las ilusiones de lograr reparación integral en Colombia, negándole a las víctimas la posibilidad de confrontar los  rostros de quienes propiciaron sus tragedias.

But more serious still were the implications of extraditing leaders like 'Don Berna' and 'HH', in the midst of a key process in Colombian history. Make them available to the United States was to recognize not only the failure of our courts, but hindered the process, creating an expansion of the truth just as it began to play members of Colombian politics.

Now, the 300 000 affected by the paramilitaries appear not only as victims of armed actors, but also the lethargy with which such bodies as the prosecutor's office have taken their responsibility to the trials.

And if it is true that truth is one of the "great achievements" made by Act 975 of 2005, so is that it is in limbo not being accompanied by statements that force the public plea for forgiveness and material compensation to victims. With this, paramilitaries statements (of which there is doubt even today) are a vague reflection of what should be a transitional justice.

As clearly explained International Center for Transitional Justice: "The legal measures, such trials are not sufficient." And in a country where even this minimal condition is met, it is unthinkable to dream with the right mix of material and moral relief as possible to grant forgiveness to those who have lost so much with the conflict.

Justice and look like a pretty word mentioned, redundant if you will. But that is what has called the Colombian people before the decade of 50, when Rojas Pinilla created the 'Guerrillas of Peace', considered as the origin of paramilitaries in Colombia. Is a key element to channel conflict societies and understood Chile and South Africa.

But justice remains a distant aspiration, a false promise that repeatedly demonstrates the weakness of our state. A chimera that historically has led us down the path of arms, believing that they will meet again the balance that will lead to peace renowned.

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two years ago, before they officiate as High Commissioner for Peace, the official Frank Pearl showed at the Universidad Pontificia Bolivariana program benefits Reintegration of the Presidency of the Republic, whose aim was to make productive citizens armed and useful for Colombian society.

"Re-Pearl-has said the approach of giving financial support in exchange for a person to stop the weapon. Reintegration is more complex and is based on generating capacity in people, including family and community, so it is a long-term process and should be sustainable, ie it is based on the efforts of those demobilized and has certain limits. "

The presentation of the official was careful not to mention paramilitary, paramilitary groups or anything resembling it, because by then the Government had managed the not inconsiderable 'miracle' to reintegrate more than 30 thousand members of groups extreme right outside the law.

However, without realizing it, Frank Pearl gave the key to understanding the conflict situation facing the country today, and that surprised many, as if it were an unusual case . Uribe and the heads of local authorities who accompanied drove the paramilitary demobilization buying process of consciousness and economic privileges, to pay the rifles with which they waged war in Colombia. It was, as would the former High Commissioner for Peace, a process of reintegration.

The effort of the demobilized paramilitaries, integration with the families of the actors in the conflict and the formation process to return to the legal life were scarce items that demobilization, which only appeared when the government needed the media to boast of their supposed successes.

Recidivism was, therefore, product lack of planning and the ease with which they took a missed opportunity by both parties. And consequently, the prosecution of leaders of paramilitary gangs had multiple setbacks, exploited by those who now sow new terror in paramilitary organizations not willing to cede more land.

Like Pearl, the new Colombian officials (those who 'will change the country') are careful not to mention the word Self-Defense and they have used the euphemism useful tool both served in Colombia to mislead the unwary and Incidentally, embellish reality.

Under the name of criminal gangs, was named the alleged "new phenomenon of domestic violence." And with each passing day, the title was reduced to an expression quite sound but little explained: BACRIM. The Colombian media, little given to reflection and very similar to a mirror of the ruling party, tirelessly repeating the acronym own mouth or officials, without going into detailed analysis to delve into the famous abbreviation.

However, it seems that behind de la palabra Bacrim hay una marcada intención que sobrepasa la ingenuidad de los medios: rendirle pleitesía al pasado Gobierno, ocultando con unas cuantas sílabas las consecuencias de la condescendencia con que Uribe trató el paramilitarismo en Colombia.  

Los más uribistas dirán que con la salida del ex mandatario se fue la seguridad y la tranquilidad del país. Pero resulta bastante cuestionable que en tan poco tiempo ‘reviva’ la criminalidad, así como es de dudosa procedencia la tesis de que las Bandas Crminales (o Bacrim, para seguir el protocolo) están desmoronando la defensa del país.  

Most media now seem to have communed with this approach. But let me skeptical, saying that poor should be built democratic security for 8 years, if only 6 months of "isolated criminal gangs" are able to shake it.


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A competitor incompetent Justice

The recent visit of Colombian vice president, Angelino Garzón, United States seems to show that the Government is doing 'Every effort' to enter the global framework of globalization. This diplomatic trip had a specific purpose: to convince U.S. Congress that Colombia is a country that offers sufficient guarantees, in business terms and in terms of human rights, for the signing of NAFTA.

with similar interests have been addressed bilateral economic agreements with countries such as Brazil, Canada and other European Union nations involved in negotiations with Colombia. However, the unbridled desire to sign international treaties contrasts negligence and apathy that has been shown in the country on far more significant events to make this a truly competitive territory.

is pointless to think that Colombia may add value to their products and services, where science and technology (necessary to form a knowledge society) are treated, economically speaking, is indifferent.

are clear facts that prove it, such as science and technology investment in the Gross Domestic Product, which in Colombia is not enough to exceed 0.2%. This figure is not only laughable next to the neighboring countries, but it looks tiny next to the 8% that is spent on war-torn country, a portfolio that allows the Colombian state afford (or dishonor?) Of Army have a higher than Brazil, the South American country's most internationally.

The neighboring country, for example, is a clear case of the objective should be drawn Colombia, since 2% of investment in science and technology, Brazil has been able talking with property from the United States and has also made plausible as the developing their own video game console (Zeebo.)

Faced with a scenario so adverse, the only thing left to offer the country is easy access to international industries ( the "investor confidence") and a factor that seems quite attractive to foreign investors capital: labor faster, cheaper and free of any social benefits.

Naturally, for never developed on territories with these characteristics. But even the ease of Colombia, at the expense of labor rights is not sufficient guarantee to appear as a competitive option in international markets, since in terms of quantity and quality is surpassed.

Just look at our apparel industry (which is one of the largest contributor to the growth of the Colombian economy) to realize it. Colombian textiles U.S. sold about 1,000 million dollars a year, while Mexico and Central sell U.S. $ 10,000,000,000 (Revista Cambio, 2005). States U.S. is the largest importer of apparel in the world and Colombia accounts for only 0.1% of trade.

These figures support a thesis understood by neighboring states like Chile, but here it still looks like a secret: the competitive strength of Latin American countries can not be in the mass of work, but in quality and added value of national production.

The choice of option (the workforce) has predictable consequences for the country because Colombia does not have enough human capital to compete in global markets, the volumes of production require entrepreneurs to turn to so-called outsourcing (outsourcing) to relieve the financial burden of some finishing processes of the products.

However, if political decision makers choose the second option (that of a knowledge society) the country can give to the world with production volumes additional value of a state that is able to integrate the outcome of the research with an industry that takes advantage the full potential of our territory.

This is achieved through the implementation of public policies to democratize access to new knowledge and updated, allowing citizens (regardless of class) make free use of new technologies for knowledge and promoting integration between the three key institutions to stake out the progress: private companies, university and state.

This, by far, is still an end so far as desirable, because the coverage rates of technologies such as internet differ significantly from international standards. Only 35% of Colombians have access to this technology, a figure that is doubled in the United States.

however have already appeared in the country attempts to promote progress. Former Sen. Martha Lucia Ramirez, promoter of the Law on Science and Technology, estimated that Colombia should point to an investment of 1.5% for science and technology. Not only that, but to set stable resources for colleges as Colciencias and ideally, create a ministry that is dedicated solely to these issues.

caliber proposals that are essential in a country which in the words of the Latin American writer Eduardo Galeano "has specialized in losing," it has chosen the path of the export of raw materials treated by others that get great returns for processing.

is no doubt that while Colombia did not understand the exigencies of the globalized market, will not serve the signing of FTAs, since all that is achieved will be the colossal crushing by the large international industry of ours.

think in competitive terms is an urgent need. Only then will the country be able to talk with its allies in terms of pairs, and not look like a farm full of laborers who ask mercy of a foreman who is considering tariff concessions.

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