Author

Vanesa Vallejo

Vanesa Vallejo is a Colombian economist, columnist, and classical liberal activist. She is a member of Colombia's Libertarian Movement. Follow her: @VanesaVallejo3.

Politics

The macabre relationship between Marxism and psychoanalysis

Vanesa Vallejo Apr 2, 2018 435

After Max Horkheimer assumed the direction of the institute in 1930, he shifted investigations that until then were concentrated in the socioeconomic analysis of bourgeois society. This German Marxist intellectual, following the line of…
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Cuba

A Year After Fidel Castro’s Death, the Fear He Fostered in Cuba Lives On

Vanesa Vallejo Nov 28, 2017 32

Español I recently spoke with a Cuban who has been living in Spain for 20 years, who told me that every so often he meets with some Cubans who also live in Madrid. "It's incredible, but even in Spain when we talk about Castro we…
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Colombia

Colombia’s FARC Deal Will Turn Terrorists Into Legislators: What Could Go Wrong?

Vanesa Vallejo May 19, 2017 0

EspañolIn surveys on happiness, Colombia almost always appears near the top. Apparently, we suffer very little. One of the keys to happiness is to not worry, to take matters lightly. But it's also fundamental that matters of importance…
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Featured

Femicide: Is a Woman’s Life Worth More Than a Man’s?

Vanesa Vallejo Apr 28, 2017 27

EspañolTo say that a woman's life is worth more than a man's sounds so awful that even those who defend laws against "femicide" refuse to recognize it. However, in Colombia and other countries where "feminicide" has been established…
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Columnists

Marx’s Predictions Failed: There are Fewer and Fewer Poor People

Vanesa Vallejo Dec 25, 2016 80

Karl Marx's ideas have been put into action dozens of times in different parts of the world. These have always had the same consequences: death and misery. A country's failure level is proportional to the intensity with which they apply…
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Caribbean

Fidel Castro: The Homophobic Dictator and his Forced Labor Camps

Vanesa Vallejo Dec 7, 2016 237

Español Fidel Castro passed away last week and many apparently have ignored the murderous tendencies of the perpetual dictator. Or, like Colombia's influential magazine Semana, they simply pardon him for being a Communist. The…
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Colombia

No, Raising Taxes in Colombia Will Not Help the Country’s Poor

Vanesa Vallejo Nov 1, 2016 5

EspañolColombian President Juan Manuel Santos has emphasized ad nauseum that though the tax reform is painful, it is inevitable if social programs benefiting the poorest citizens are to be maintained. In an interview with the…
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Opinion

Why Foreign Aid Backfires and Condemns Countries to Poverty

Vanesa Vallejo Oct 18, 2016 33

EspañolStudying economics at the university level usually means taking at least one course in development economics and three in macroeconomics. However, in my case, as in many other students across the world, none of these ever…
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South America

The Twisted Logic of Colombia’s Peace Deal with FARC

Vanesa Vallejo Oct 12, 2016 0

Propaganda and the macabre use of language that the Colombian government has deployed since the peace negotiations is overwhelming. In Colombia, people do not talk about the signing of an agreement; they talk about "the signing of…
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Caribbean

Dismantling Cuba’s Socialist Success Myth

Vanesa Vallejo Sep 22, 2016 134

Every time I talk with defenders of the Cuban Revolution, they end up saying something like, "at least, children in Cuba do not starve, like in Colombia." Well, slaves did not starve either. The masters were actually interested in…
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South America

US Olympics Success Proves that the Government Shouldn’t Pay for Sports

Vanesa Vallejo Aug 24, 2016 11

Colombian boxer Yuberjen Martinez used to sell coconut nougat on the street, and made handicrafts to help his parents. Now he has a silver medal from the 2016 Rio Olympics. Days before his final fight, he said on camera he wanted to…
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Columnists

Feminists and Other Politically Correct Tyrants Are Taking over the World

Vanesa Vallejo Jul 30, 2016 15

If you think you're tolerant and that you defend freedom of speech just because you claim that it's fine for someone to declare themselves "trans-species" or for a man to be able to marry a tree, but at the same time you demand…
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