Colombian President Alvaro Uribe reiterated at the beginning of the year that his second re-election and third term will ''depend on the Constitutional Court, the people and God our Lord.'' As the situation now stands, it seems that only God’s decision is left to decipher.

Latin America and the Caribbean is the only region of the world where the fertility rate of adolescents has gone up over the last 30 years, as manifested in Colombia's and Brazil's alarming increases in teenage pregnancy. This trend reflects Colombia's silent social catastrophe.