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Raisbeck asks whether the Colombian republic can withstand what he calls Petro's iminent constitutional onslaught.

While legalizing the medical use of marijuana was a step in the right direction, the local industry has been saddled by red tape.

Neo-Marxist Petro blames the scandal on the "owners of capital," but the protagonists were his own chief of staff & campaign manager.

Petro, who is praised by his friends for his “solid Marxist foundation,” plans to ban all exploration of oil, Colombia’s main export, to expropriate the nearly $100 billion that are now saved in individual, private pension accounts, and to print money to pay for public spending...

What can observers take from events in Peru? And what takeaways are relevant for Colombia’s upcoming 2022 elections, and for economic and civil liberty more broadly in the Americas? Daniel Raisbeck has some prescient observations.

There’s an ongoing debate about how we should evaluate the effectiveness of school choice policies. Last month, two education professors argued that standardized test scores should be “the measure of success.” Other education researchers – including myself – contend that we...

This is a fall from 2015, when Colombia ranked 103rd overall, and a substantial drop from its ranking of 84th in 2010.