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Recreational cannabis, will it fall or will ir be regulated?
The legalization of the carriage and consume of cannabis in Colorado and Washington, as some analysits have pointed it out, can be the beginning of the end of prohibitionism, or at least an opportunity to debate better alternatives of policies, that are less expensive in both economic and human rights terms.
Read MoreThe non reasons for the extended the military jurisdiction (I)
None of the reasons invoked to extend the military jurisdiction is neither convenient nor acceptable.
Read MoreThe still pending answers of the Cerrejón
The sudden decision of Cerrejon of suspending the studies to divert the Ranchería river and explote coal in its bed left more questions than answers.
Read MoreHuman Rights: New Threats in the Hemisphere
In her novel, In the Time of the Butterflies, Julia Álvarez describes an international mission to visit the Mirabal sisters when two of the four women were in jail for opposing the Rafael Trujillo regime in the Dominican Republic. Three of the sisters were later assassinated on November 25, 1960—a date later designated by the United Nations as the International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women.
That mission was an historic landmark in the Americas: the first on-site visit carried out by what became the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR).
Read MoreThe decline of prohibition?
Last tuesday two votings took place in the United States that may be even more important for Colombia and Latin america than the reelection of Obama: in the states of Colorado and Washington (not the federal district), a majority of citizens approved the legalization of cannabis.
Read MoreFacing the unprotected, where’s the State?
Facing the hostility against the defendants of human rights, why doesn’t he Colombian Government do something?
Read MoreAnd the mining industry, who’s going to make the pay taxes?
The government doesn’t seem interested in putting rails to this derailed locomotive: the tributary reform keeps untouched the enormous privileges that have been granted to it during the last decade.
Read MoreSix Senses’s sixth sense
With the deceitful “agreement” between the indigenous of the Sierra Nevada it is now clear that the Six Senses company is ready to use all the senses of tis name to build, what ever it takes, a luxury hotel in the Tayrona National Park.
Read MoreThe ambious reform to “Justicia y Paz”
On one hand, it could speed up the investigations and on the other hand the reparation could be even harder. The president has now the word.
Read MoreStrike and essential public services
The debate on the legality of the judicial strike suggests a more general problem, that we haven’t debated in a proper manner in Colombia: what should be the adequate regulation to the strike in an “essential public service” (EPS)?
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