Pundits squared off over the meaning of the latest attacks by the FARC after the end of its unilateral ceasefire. 

“Stop the war against the people,” demand the activists remembering the Halconazo; the solution to violence requires the construction of a “real democracy,” they say. 

If the U.S. had the same murder rate that El Salvador has, more than 218,000 people would die in one year.