In June, I visited the places where my mother’s father, Hubert Saurwein, founded and led the armed resistance against Hitler in a long and narrow valley of Austria, the Oetz valley, in the region of Northern Tyrol. He was nicknamed the Tito of the Oetz Valley. He was a locomotive engineer, a committed Catholic, and a union member, with a strong believe in freedom and justice and when Nazism pen...

The Center for Latin American Studies at Georgetown University hosted a one-day seminar on April 17, 2013, on the Emerging Role of Colombia in the World. The seminar was organized in partnership with the Embassy of Colombia and the Organization of American States. I was part of a panel focused on the ongoing peace process. Moderated by professor Marc Chernick, I had the honor to engage in an exch...