Authors: HÉCTOR ABAD FACIOLINCE

Dying beliefs
April 2 2005: Héctor Abad Faciolince takes a critical look at modern life prolonging methods in the context of religious faith.

Nationality irrationality and the Swiss referendum
October 10 2004: A referendum in Switzerland has upheld the country's policy of keeping Swiss citizenship élitist. Héctor Abad Faciolince reflects on some of the prejudices underlying the assignment of nationality.

Bewailing walls of doom: Israel and beyond
July 23 2004: Héctor Abad Faciolince describes his visit to the Wailing Wall in Jerusalem and reflects on some of the far-reaching implications of Israel's ongoing Cisjordanian wall for the 21st century.

Preventive war, preventive scanning
January 9 2004: Héctor Abad Faciolince argues that present US procedures for anti-terrorist frontier scanning could mark the start of a new paradigm in discrimination against citizens of "grade-B" countries.

Transplanting the heart of democracy in Iraq
November 21 2003: Héctor Abad Faciolince explains why Bush's declared attempt to introduce democracy in Iraq by force seems set to fail.

Multiplying misery - Vatican sins against humanity
October 25 2003: As the Roman Catholic world celebrates the 25th anniversary of Pope John Paul's pontificate, Héctor Abad Faciolince argues that continuing Church opposition to birth control now threatens planetary disaster.

Colombians weary of kidnap terror
November 15 2002: Kidnap victims in Colombia have risen to a world record of over 17,000 in the last five years. The much tried patience of the Colombian people is now running out, says Héctor Abad Faciolince.

Criminally courting Bush in Colombia
August 30 2002: Colombia should reject U.S. carrot and stick methods and fully recognise the authority of the International Criminal Court. Héctor Abad Faciolince reports.

Blair's Bobby Cooper for Colombian president?
August 15 2002: Héctor Abad Faciolince advises passive resistance as a last resort in coping with British and U.S. defensive imperialism.

Waiting for Godot in quarantine
August 15 2002: Héctor Abad Faciolince reveals the cruel psychological torture suffered by Colombians seeking visas and places them within the broader context of the world's poor, the new plague-ridden pariahs of society who must be quarantined.