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Journalists and Union Leaders : Privileged Dead?
Numbers are alarming: 125 journalists killed in the last 125 years in the country. Equally serious is the number of cases that have ended in a sentence: only 12, and almost always against the one who shoot and not the one who gave the order.
Read MoreA tiger of flesh and bones
It´s very difficult to demonstrate, as pretends the columnist Alfredo Rangel, that the Colombian Government has the real and unequivocalwill to investigate and judge crimes against humanity that are of the competence of the International Criminal Court.
Read MoreThe Science of Religion
It´s been almost two centuries since Auguste Compte said in his Opuscules that society was in a state of transition between the old world, dominated by religion and the militarism, a new world where science and humanism will be the guides of civilization.
Read MoreRodrigo Uprimny in the Editorial of September 3 in El Espectador
The thing about impunity towards the killing of journalists in Colombia, very usual every certain time, was the object of debate during the meeting organized by the Interamerican Society of Press (SIP) and Andiarios, beginning this week in Bogota.
Read MoreJudicial Independence, Verbal Intemperance and Interamerican Court
The last ruling from the Interamerican Court was against Venezuela, but it seems to be written for Colombia due to the reflections about the threat to the judicial independence because of the verbal attacks from the governement againts the decisions from the judges that do not suit its will.
Read MoreMore Scandals than Institutions
One of the most visible things in a democracy that works properly is is the clear division that exists between the subjects that are object of consensus and dissensus.
Read MoreNetherland Radio Interviews Camilo Sánchez on the ICC
The prosecutor from the International Criminal Court, Luis Moreno Ocampo, arrives today to Bogotá. He is searching for the nexus between the political elite and the chief paramilitaries that have committed crimes against humanity, who after negotiating with the government penalties no greater than 8 years in exchange to confessing and repairing the victims, were extradited to the United States where they are being convicted for drug trafficking.
Read MoreThe International Criminal Court Arrives to Colombia
With the visit from the International Criminal Court (ICC) I ask myself what are thinking the analyst who celebrated the decision from the government to extradit the paramilitary chiefs. Since then, many of us adviced that with the take of of the para-charter the right to the truth, justice and reparation of the victims smear.
Read MoreDefending Who?
In studies about justice, usually there is made a differentiation between the most visible justice – which is the judicial cases of major impact as parapolitics – and the routine justice, that decides over the judicial cases of the common people such as robberies and divorces.
Read MoreProcurator to the Constitutional Court Asks for Health System Intervention
For considering that in the country there is a continuous violation of the right to health of the colombian citizens, Edgardo Maya recomends to impose a “declaration of emergency”.
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