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“I finally understood the iceberg of para-politics”
Claudia Lopez became famous for her research on para-politics which revealed links between politicians and paramilitaries and resulted in the judicial accusation of 97 congressmen.
Today, in the Book Fair, she launches the second chapter of this research. “And they re-founded the country … how the mafia and politics reconfigured the Colombian state.”
It is the result of an extensive research coordinated by her but realized by 15 researchers from the New Rainbow Corporation, Group Method of Luis Jorge Garay, Congreso Visible, Dejusticia and Moe. This is an interview about their results.
Read MoreNew drug policy?
I WISH PRESIDENT SANTOS would rethink the drug policy and abandon the fundamentalism that characterized the previous government, which froze the debate on this issue for eight years.
Read MoreThe Inspector General’s crusade
Voluntary interruption of pregnancy in the three extreme circumstances is part of human rights. Therefore, its guarantee and assurance is responsibility of the Inspector General, like it or not.
Read MoreTime for equal marriage rights
The time has come for the Constitutional Court to decide the right to marriage of same-sex couples.
Read MoreJudicial reform: Uribe compared to Santos
Some of Santos proposals are debatable and can be problematic. However, the tone of the new president is different from the one Uribe used and could allow reasoned debate.
Read MoreThe laws of justice and peace
In recent weeks, the government has claimed the “Law of Justice and Peace” (LJP) because it believes it has contributed in achieving peace while respecting victim rights.
Read MoreGay marriage: The devil is in the details
I ONCE WROTE THAT THE charm that Argentina has for Colombians is much more than football, BBQ’s or the beauty of Buenos Aires and the country in general.
Read MoreThe white man’s burden
The self-imposed “white man’s burden” in the twenty-first century is no longer civilize uncivilized and savage peoples from afar, but to save the poor Muslims from ignorance and tyranny of their own culture.
Read MoreIndependence: pending tasks
TODAY JULY 20th, the day we celebrate the 200th anniversary of the “Grito de Independencia”, it is worthwhile to ask ourselves whether or not the challenges faced by the first generation of Colombians are still pending.
Read MoreThird follow-up report to Auto 092 of 2008
The Corporation Casa de la Mujer, the Consultancy for Human Rights and Displacement (CODHES), the Corporation Sisma Women, the Colombian Women’s Initiative Partnership for Peace (IMP), the Women’s Pacific Route, the Center for the Study of Law, Justice, and Society – Dejusticia, the Working Group on Women and Armed Conflict, the Colombian Commission of Jurists, the Lawyers Collective José Alvear Restrepo, and the League of Displaced Women, meeting in follow-up committee to the order issued to the Attorney General and the invitation to the Inspector General’s Office regarding the annex of the Auto 092, 2008 of the Constitutional Court, together with the National Indigenous Organization of Colombia, ONIC, present the third monitoring report which intends to demonstrate that the entities in charged of effectively implementing the Auto 092 have not done so, reason why the Court’s intervention in the matter is requested.
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