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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.

International Relations

Ecuador: Ex-President Rafael Correa Could End up in Prison for Kidnapping

Vanesa Vallejo Jun 21, 2018 61

Starting on July 2, the former president of Ecuador, Rafael Correa, must appear every 15 days before the Supreme Court of Justice, as part of the precautionary measures that this Monday were issued by a criminal judge, after being…
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Elections

Colombian Presidential Elections: Why Petro’s New Strategy Won’t Work

Vanesa Vallejo Jun 4, 2018 1,164

The most worrying thing of all is that the Petro is neither a moderate leftist, nor a social democrat. He openly speaks with major media outlets, which have offered him significant coverage, about expropriation. He has even mentioned which…
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Elections

It is the Poorest People Who Should be Voting for Iván Duque

Vanesa Vallejo May 8, 2018 869

It is common to hear that Iván Duque, the protege of former president Álvaro Uribe Vélez, is the candidate of the rich, and that Gustavo Petro, meanwhile, is the savior of the poor. Basically, this idea is nothing more than the old belief…
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Politics

The macabre relationship between Marxism and psychoanalysis

Vanesa Vallejo Apr 2, 2018 992

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 47

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 1

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 47

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 196

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 408

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 57

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 4

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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