In Colombia, Decades of Graft Cripple a University

By MICHAEL EASTERBROOK

Barranquilla, Colombia

In this chaotic city on Colombia's Caribbean coast, the region's top university is as listless and murky as the giant river that flows nearby.

On a sunny July afternoon at the start of the academic year, students sit for hours in the shade of an outdoor cafeteria playing cards and dominos. Mold and termites eat away at...

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