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Who Wants to Be Like Obama?

July 27, 2010

Amused by the eagerness of some Italian politicians to define themselves as a replica of Obama, I consider the gap in perception of Obama between Europe (who maintains a romanticized view of the U.S. president) and the United States (where the president enjoyed a very short honey moon).

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Paramilitary and Politics in Colombia
December 23, 2006
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The Safe-Democracy Foundation published the English version of an Op-Ed that I had written for the Colombian weekly newspaper El Espectador. In this Op-Ed I draw a comparision betwen the Italian Mafia and the Colombian paramilitary.


 
El Espectador. Paramilitary and Politics in Colombia. Dangerous Crisis or Opportunity?
December 22, 2006
download The Colombian weekly newspaper El Espectador published an Op-Ed in which I draw comparisons between the Colombian paramilitary and the Sicilian Mafia. Colombia is facing one of its most deep crisis and I suggest that this is not a time for a state of emergency but for civic engagement.

 


 
Disbanding Colombia's Paramilitary Groups
July 27, 2006
Op-Ed published by Safe-Deamocracy. The Op-Ed analyzes the three major contributors to the ongoing crisis between the Colombian government and paramilitary leaders: the economic structuring of the paramilitary groups, the continuation of narco-trafficking, and the involvement of Colombian armed forces in narco-trafficking. It can be also find at: http://english.safe-democracy.org/2006/07/12/disbanding-colombia-s-paramilitary-group


 


 

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Flor del Monte, Colombia
In the region of Montes de Maria, the population celebrated the 15 years of the peace agreement between the Coriente de Renovación Socialista (a wing of the ELN guerrilla) and the Colombian government. May 2, 2009.
In the region of Montes de Maria, the population celebrated the 15 years of the peace agreement between the Coriente de Renovación Socialista (a wing of the ELN guerrilla) and the Colombian government. May 2, 2009.
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In the region of Montes de Maria, the population celebrated the 15 years of the peace agreement between the Coriente de Renovación Socialista (a wing of the ELN guerrilla) and the Colombian government. May 2, 2009.
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In the region of Montes de Maria, the population celebrated the 15 years of the peace agreement between the Coriente de Renovación Socialista (a wing of the ELN guerrilla) and the Colombian government. May 2, 2009.
The square of Flor del Monte, around which turns the life of the village.
In the region of Montes de Maria, the population celebrated the 15 years of the peace agreement between the Coriente de Renovación Socialista (a wing of the ELN guerrilla) and the Colombian government. May 2, 2009.
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In the region of Montes de Maria, the population celebrated the 15 years of the peace agreement between the Coriente de Renovación Socialista (a wing of the ELN guerrilla) and the Colombian government. May 2, 2009.
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