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Defense of TransMilenio
Juan Fernando Jaramillo, investigator with Dejusticia, gives a bitter defense of TransMilenio dispite all of its problems.
Read MoreThe census of what?
Danilo Rojas, investigator at Dejusticia, warns about the dangers of having the census coincide with the electoral calendar.
Read MoreMultinationals and Human Rights
The analyst, Diego López explains why the United Nations World Pact, which was recently signed, will be able to save the workers and consumers of multinationals.
Read MoreIs the United States-Colombia Free Trade Agreement Constitutional?
What happens if the United States-Colombia Free Trade Agreement is a violation of the Colombian Constitution? César Rodríguez addresses this possibility and the consequences it would have on the trade agreement.
Read MoreThe Constitutional Court and the ability to examine the President´s re-election
Rodrigo Uprimny states that the Constitutional Court is competent to thoroughly examine the immediate re-election of the President.
Read MorePremiering justice
The new accusatory system that began to govern 20 days ago promises a substantial improvement in justice, but there is a lot to do to achieve it.
Read MoreThe Constitutional Court and Control of Presidential Extraordinary Powers in Colombia
The paper analyzes the attempts of Colombian Constitutional Court to control the abuse of presidential emergency powers in the last decade. After describing the dilemmas that governmental emergency powers pose to constitutional regimes and explaining some particularities of Colombian (a democracy under permanent emergency), the article focuses on the efforts of the Constitutional Court to exercise a “material” control of the declaration of a state of emergency by the President. According to this legal doctrine, it is the duty of the Court to analyze if the facts invoked by the government constitute a crisis severe enough to justify the use of emergency powers. The article shows that the Court has exercised this material control in a quite strict way and has nullified several declarations of a state of emergency by different presidents. The article tries then to analyze how this form of judicial review has been possible in a country like Colombia, with a precarious democracy and a cruel armed conflict. The article describes also the impact of this form of judicial control in Colombian politics and offer some more general conclusions based on Colombian experience
Read MoreIs there justice?
The criminal trial reform seeks more efficient means of investigation, clearer judgments, more independent judges and more protected guarantees.
Read MoreCriticisms of the Colombian Judicial Defense System: Response by Rodrigo Uprimny
The idea to improve the judicial defense system of Colombia is not that it will always be successful in winning cases but rather at times when cases are lost; it is because of the abuses that haunt you. Rodrigo Uprimny’s response to reactions to his column about the judicial defense system in Colombia.
Read MoreWhat time is it? The re-election of Bush and the future of the United States-Colombia Free Trade Agreement
The re-election of George W. Bush will bring important consequences for American foreign policy on Latin America. César Rodríguez analyzes the effect of the election results on the Colombian Plan and on the negotiations of the United States-Colombia Free Trade Agreement between the United States and Andean countries.
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