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Drug trafficking as a crime against humanity?
IN RECENT DAYS, President Uribe stated a new thesis: drug trafficking should be considered a crime against humanity.
Read MoreThe missing: an endless counter
In recent years a system unifies the cases of people who left their homes and never returned for several reasons; but the families of those who, presumably, were forcibly disappeared complain about the requirement to register “presumed death” in order to have access to humanitarian aid.
Read MoreDisabled horse
MANY ARE outraged, rightly, for Uribe’s statements warning that “little effort of a disabled horse” is not sufficient to ensure safety. They denounced, also rightly, illegal invasion in politics that involves the indirect policy against the Green Party candidate, who has suffered worst attacks in these days.
Read MoreIt wasn’t me, it was the State
An “act of state” does not relieve the responsibility of those who, while carrying it out, violate human rights.
Read MoreThe disappeared and the presidential campaign
Forced disappearance is terrible; any given day, a person is violently stolen from its environment and loses all trace.
Read MoreThe sins of the soul
THE CHURCHMAN ALFONSO LLANO IN his column last week, undertook it against those who criticize the Church for its negligent attitude towards pedophile priests.
Read MoreRecognition of missing people as victims is required
A lawsuit of various NGO’s said that the exclusion is “discriminatory and violates the right to equality”.
Read MoreWhat Uribe leaves to indigenous people
THE MINISTER Valencia Cossio travels to New York to participate in the UN Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues which started yesterday. Curious.
Read MoreThe Catholic Church and the pederasts
It is very important that the Church reports to justice the allegations of sexual abuse by priests so that they can be judged.
Read MorePolo and the Greens
People do not always vote for what is best for them. If so, poor Colombians, who are more than half of the population, would come in droves to vote for the left, which promises a serious social justice policy. Moreover, we know that President Uribe, whose government has favored the rich and very little, if anything, the poor, is more popular in social stratum one and two than in five and six. Then, what reason have the people to vote?
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