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Vivimos en un mundo cuyo modelo económico y político permite y apalanca una irracional acumulación de la riqueza en pocas manos, este fenómeno y sus consecuencias sociales, políticas, culturales y demás, son de obligatoria comprensión y transformación por parte de las Universidades y sus funciones sustantivas: investigación, formación y extensión, éstas particularmente deberían jugar un papel decisivo.

We live in a world whose economic and political model permits and leverages an irrational wealth accumulation in few hands. This phenomenon and its social, political, and cultural consequences and the like are of required comprehension and transformation on the part of Universities and their substantive functions: research, training, and extension, which should play a decisive role. ; Vivimos en un mundo cuyo modelo económico y político permite y apalanca una irracional acumulación de la riqueza en pocas manos, este fenómeno y sus consecuencias sociales, políticas, culturales y demás, son de obligatoria comprensión y transformación por parte de las Universidades y sus funciones sustantivas: investigación, formación y extensión, éstas particularmente deberían jugar un papel decisivo.

The pendulum of violence and the new displacements are back in Colombia, which are now promoted
by the advent of "development," which is manifested in the strong alliances between multinational
corporations and the State, which not only expel inhabitants from their territories, but also, degrade
nature. In both cases, this happens under the protection of Institutionality and the regulation. This is the concrete case that diverse regions experience in Colombia.

El presente artículo, derivado de investigación, presenta un primer avance de algunas preguntas que han surgido respecto del abastecimiento sostenible y real de agua para Medellín, su calidad y los negocios que circulan en torno a este preciado recurso, presenta este texto, algunos hallazgos que nos posibilitan generar algunas líneas de análisis, con el fin de aportar en el necesario debate público, al respecto.

Asistimos a una época confusa, es por ello que es necesario fortalecer por diversos medios, la capacidad de cuestionarse y cuestionar el contexto, transformar de manera efectiva un estado de cosas no deseado, movilizar la capacidad de asumir responsabilidades concretas, como lo reclamó Camilo Torres Restrepo (a 50 años de su muerte) al hablar del "Amor Eficaz", el amor que transforma, ese que es efectivo, que no solo reflexiona y caracteriza sino que se compromete vital y existencialmente.

El Maestro Hugo Zemelman se nos ha adelantado en este caminar por la vida y la existencia, ha cerrado sus ojos para abrirlos permanentemente en las enseñanzas que deja en sus escritos, historias y recuerdos en cada uno de nosotros.

Understanding that the "Congress of the Peoples" is a process of social and popular character that summons all those dynamics and processes of peoples, sectors and regions that are ready to undertake a legislative common construction for mandatar the future and the present of our country with a Latin-American and world perspective, the Magazine Kavilando assumes in this edition the commitment to facilitate the debate concerning the fight for the life, the territory, the water, the culture and the life deigns as a contribution in the way towards the construction of the autonomies and the popular sovereignty.

The colonization process of Europe and
civilization in the Americas set up his
«world system» and with it the «single
truth» that considers no human any knowledge
different. Latin American critical thought
propose unlearn western models and transform
knowledge systems. The reason objective,
scientific, positivist is put on trial. Women's
Studies emerged as critical vision and defies
patriarchal reason, that becomes invisible
to women and distorts their contribution
to knowledge. Feminist critical theory is
a strategy to dismantle the epistemological
paradigm that justifies beliefs, dogmas,
customs, traditions of male authority. The
study of the body is an epistemological
challenge to feminist studies.

This article shows the results of a research carried out by Saint Bonaventure University, Medellin, in the "20 de Julio" Neighborhood in the Municipality of Urrao, Antioquia. It was a descriptive-retrospective study in which families and young people took part, as well as five institutions which have served directly to the community. The purpose of the study was to characterize the population of the neighborhood, in order to identify the current factors which interfere with cohabitation. The results described in the characterization of the families are grouped into: sociodemographic characteristics, time of living in the neighborhood, place of origin, and the reasons which led these families to live in the neighborhood, family make-up and dynamic, the housing conditions in general and the perception the family has about the problems which affect the neighborhood. Lastly, a discussion and the conclusions about the findings are presented.

This text aims to connect some lines and routes of analysis as contribution to the debate which is reappearing in Latin America around the third non-developed component of modernity: Fraternity. That is why it will be approached from a political dimension, which is proper to modernity and the proposal of Franciscan philosophy.

In this paper, a characterization from the specific case of the file applied by the Forging Futures Foundation and the Assembly of Cooperation for Peace in Spain, Social Action, the Prosecutor and the Ombudsman, Saint Bonaventure University, People's Training Institute is made, within the framework of the 9 district days to the attention to the victims of the armed conflict in the city of Medellin and the Metropolitan Area since May 2009

For over thirty years was forged, thanks to numerous
rebellions, such as indigenous people,
blacks and the same movements commoner
1781, the geste of independence against Spanish
domination, multiple and diverse today continues
in resistance Colombian people, living new
forms of colonization and domination. Identified
in this journal, some issues, that merit consideration,
to change processes for dignified living
conditions, enabling the autonomy of peoples
and the definition of evolution for the benefit of
the various peoples that make up Colombia and
reducing services to large international interests

The news of the installation in Colombia, the Manta
military base, has generated a national controversy,
because it intends to transfer the base but transforming its operation throughout the country. This article aims compare the reasons for any inconvenience caused in installation in Ecuador and the
reasons for denying the firm extending the existence of the military base with discussions which has resulted in Colombia giving light to approach the analysis of this phenomenon.