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Wrong Way's love for Colombia, while not unconditional, has been clear these last few years. Colombian officialdom is now severely testing it.

The ability to say 'no' when needs be is very useful. Alas, not everybody can actually say it, especially in Colombia.

@wwaycorrigan [Click here for an audio version of this blog entry.] ‘Is it possible that he has nothing but cowardice and fear of death to make him live?’ So Sonia Marmeládova asked herself about the one she cared for dearly, the murderer Rodion Raskolnikov, in...

@wwaycorrigan [Click here for an audio version of this blog entry.] Many reasons have been given as to why certain countries continuously perform worse than others. The most common of these are the legacy of colonialism, the system of government in place, corruption, clientelism...

@wwaycorrigan Ignorantia juris non excusat. Ignorance of the law is no excuse. ‘It’s your fault, buddy, if you didn’t know what you were doing was illegal. Don’t waste energy blaming the system, take your punishment and learn from it.’ Taking that...

@wwaycorrigan It has been said that the first item on the agenda of a newly formed Irish political party is the split. Ireland just doesn’t do unity very well it seems. Borrowing from that, after over eight years of Bogotá as my base, it would seem the first item on my...

@wwaycorrigan OK. I admit it. I’m addicted. For over a year, I thought I had it under control. The discipline and routine that a full-time job gave me saw my dependence on this reduce dramatically. However, then came the double hit. The first was self-inflicted: resigning...

@wwaycorrigan ‘Clean up your own room.’ It’s a sound, longstanding piece of advice, although one that some people these days associate more so with celebrity clinical psychologist Jordan Peterson (he’s slowly coming back to the public domain after an...

@wwaycorrigan Rejection is never easy to accept. Nonetheless, like most things in life, the more we experience it, the better we are at dealing with it. Both personally and professionally I’ve had my fair share of rejection. I won’t say that I’m now indifferent...

@wwaycorrigan About the only thing we can be certain of these days is that the uncertainty permeating through practically every sector of society is set to continue for the coming months if not years. Much has been written about the «new normals»  we’ll have to live with because of the coronavirus pandemic. Some of them, […]