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A win for Uribe and the left wing
The law of electoral guarantees creates extensive opportunities for the growth and strengthening of the democratic left wing in Colombia.
Read MoreThe Constitution and Economic Model in Colombia
This text answers two questions: First, what consecrates the Colombian Constitution as an economic model? And second, what are the legal and practical effects of constitutional norms on economic politics?
Read MoreGlobal Governance and Labor Rights: Codes of Conduct and Anti-Sweatshop Struggles in Global Apparel Factories in México and Guatemala
Based on ethnographic work of the global clothing factories in Mexico and Guatemala, this article examines both the potential and the limitations of business conduct codes and other forms of rights and governance for the efficient protection of labor rights during times of globalization.
Read MoreThe impact of the re-election on politics and the Colombian institutions
This article analyzes the effects of the introduction of the immediate presidential re-election on the political practice and operation of Colombian institutions.
Read MoreGlobalization, judicial reform and democracy in Colombia and Latin America
This article completes a systematic poll of judicial reform projects in Latin America financed by multilateral agencies and of international cooperation in the last four decades. The article offers a detailed case study on Colombian reform, one of the most ambitious in the last four decades.
Read MoreCultural and economic pincher
Danilo Rojas warns of the dangers that rest on the independence of culture and art, regularly tied to dictations of economic groups.
Read MoreReturn to the Past
The two weeks of violence that France has experienced shows that discrimination by social class is not a phenomenon of the Old Regime, but of the present.
Read MoreIn the name of Democracy
Rodrigo Uprimny states that the double take on the Law Court, with its enormous suffering, should teach us the danger of supporting an unlimited defense of institutions.
Read MoreLesson from the Law Courts to the course against the United Self-Defense Forces of Colombia
The Palace of Justice siege was a 1985 attack against the Supreme Court of Colombia, in which members of an M-19 guerilla group held Supreme Court Justices hostage. This event continues to be the starting point of many legal and political studies. The present situation shows that the principle political event is the process of demobilization of the paramilitary as a possible niche of analysis.
Read MoreCondemned by the Holocaust to give $10,000 million
In several sentences it is indicated that the State failed in an operation to recover the Palace. Nevertheless, in the penal and disciplinary system no one is condemned.
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