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EspañolAfter a group of taxi drivers turned aggressive toward a driver suspected of working for Uber, the taxi union in Bogotá, Colombia has announced prices for cab fare will rise. Read more: Colombian Taxi Drivers Demand That…
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EspañolBogota Councilman Julio Cesar Acosta announced this week that there is a great deficit of ambulances in the city, and that the existing ones lack the technology to give good service. He made the announcement from Ciudad Bolivar, a…
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By Julian Villabona EspañolCongressional Representative for Bogotá German Navas Talero — a member of the Alternative Democratic Pole Party on Colombia's right — submitted a complaint against the city's mayor Enrique Peñalosa, the…
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EspañolThe Bogotá City Council has approved the sale of the Bogotá Telecommunications Enterprise (ETB), which authorizes Mayor Enrique Penalosa to begin the process of selling the city's shares. ETB offers Internet and television to…
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Gustavo Petro, the current mayor of Bogotá, will leave his term of office on December 31 rather bruised, politically speaking. Aside from ending his four years in the second most important political post in the country with a dismal…
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The most important lesson I have learned from my recent campaign for mayor of Bogotá is that politics in Colombia, and surely in other countries, is in dire need of entrepreneurship. When I looked at the Colombian political scene, I…
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EspañolAfter a close race for mayor in the Colombian capital of Bogotá, former Mayor Enrique Peñalosa emerged victorious last Sunday to regain his old post with one-third of the vote. Besides his own proposals, Peñalosa, of the…
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EspañolDaniel Raisbeck is a young libertarian with a clear conception of the meaning of independence, change, and freedom. After three years directing the Historical Archive of Our Lady of the Rosary University, he's now set his sights…
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EspañolHow do you reduce the level of violence in a society, while also allowing individuals the freedom to pursue their various ends? Is the mere presence and natural growth of norms of coexistence enough, as Friedrich Hayek posited, …
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EspañolWhile the Colombian national football team played remarkably well at the World Cup 2014 in Brazil, Bogotá's local government officials, led by Mayor Gustavo Petro, seized the opportunity to do what they do best: restrict citizens'…
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EspañolTaking a taxi ride in Bogotá often involves descending into the world of the picaresque (roguish hero). First of all, catching a cab on the street often requires advanced skills in the art of supplication, for drivers tend to ask…
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EspañolIn various places in Latin America, we are directly experiencing the consequences of believing in the utopias (dystopias?) that statist leaders love to promise. As we witness with concern the evolution (degeneration?) of the social…
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