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Checkmate, International Humanitarian Law
After so many ferocious acts from the FARC as the recent bomb in Ituango, the abuse of the use of the Red Cross sign in the ´Check operation´ can be seen as a minor and excusable fact, that won’t deserve any more comments on the matter. Over all if is taken into account that the operative achieved without gunfire, obtained the liberation of the kidnapped that stayed for years under FARC control in atrocious conditions.
Read MoreRuling Confirms Discrimination in Discotheques
The route for slavery
Six afro-Colombians presented a lawsuit against 3 public establishments that impeded their entrance, according to them, because of their skin color.
We Reserve Admission Rights
We all have seen the odious signboard at the entrance of restaurants, bars, discotheques and public establishments of all the country. “We reserve the admission right”, reads the announcement that puts our luck in the arbitrary hands of the turn doorman.
Read MoreDream and Reality in Pekin
In Shakespeare´s Tempest, Miranda says the following: “O, wonder!/
How many goodly creatures are there here!/
How beauteous mankind is!/ O brave new world,
That has such people in’t!/”
Those Who Wear Tennis Shoes Do Not Enter
In many bars only those that can demonstrate that are identified with certain mark of clothes, shoes, accessories, and own gestures characteristic to a social class can pass the entrance examination.
Read MoreThe Judicial Reform: inopportune and opportunist
The proposal for the Judicial Reform announced by the government is inopportune for the colombian society. On the hand is functionally opportune for the government as it generates a cloak of doubt over the impartiality of the judicial investigations over “parapolítica” which has affected essentially members near to the president.
Read MoreFive Million Dollars against the Reelection
The proposal is simple: pay five million dollars to the president so he abandons office when the presidential time is over.
Read MoreTerror against Terror
LAKHDAR BOUMEDIENE it´s a Bosnian citizen born in Argelia, captured october in 2001 with 5 other people, under the suspect that he must be preparing an attack against the US Embassy in Bosnia.
Read MoreThe President’s Power to Designate
The article examines the possible causes and potential impacts of institutional imbalances at the governmental level in Colombia. The discussion is timely and relevant in the wake of President Uribe’s re-election that stands as a symbol of a force that can upset the system of checks and balances laid forth in the constitution. Presidential designation of position, popular endorsement, and the current attitude of the government are referenced as phenomenon that feed the current situation of disequilibrium. The author discusses the importance of State transparency during the upcoming designation of the Ombudsman as a possible productive step towards offsetting current imbalances. An analysis of international State level designation procedures is offered as a comparative study on the far-reaching impact of the process.
Read MoreWho Can Defend Us Now?
En los próximos meses el gobierno podría librarse, de una vez y por los cuatro años que vienen, de las incomodidades que le acarrea el principio de la separación de poderes. Así, con la ayuda de los desajustes institucionales creados por “el articulito”, el Ejecutivo podría echarse al bolsillo, al menos, a otros dos magistrados…
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