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It is possible that many readers may be tired of the debate of the ‘empty chair’. But it is necessary to continue the discussion of this theme, a useful reform –although not sufficient- to face an essential problem of Colombian society: the infiltration of criminal organizations in politics and Congress.

…All World change, the song says. In this earthly world, what seems to be is that the next United States President will be black. Now that for the first time in history, the possibility is within reach, how much would change if Obama at the always white White House? And how much of the change would we feel in these tropical lands?

The traffic signs that indicated the highway speed limits in Colombia bear a striking resemblance to that which adolescents call ‘a scolding by their parents’.

The three arguments of Uribismo to justify their support of the collapse of the reformed named ‘Empty Chair’ sound very empty.

The rich neighborhoods of our cities bear a striking resemblance to the neighborhoods of Miami or of Barcelona. The unique thing that makes them not identical is that they do not have ‘poor’ there, those in the streets, selling something, or begging. The governmental bill 087 of 2007 –for presidential sanctions- wants to put an end to the ‘aesthetic’ difference that sanctions the drivers that purchase from the people selling at traffic lights.

Václav Havel, the first president of the Czech Republic, once said that the ‘truth is not simply what one thinks it is. It is also the circumstances in which it is said and to who, how and when it is said’. What Havel is stating is not only applicable to the political world, but also to the world of justice, particularly to that of constitutional courts that are more in political than judicial worlds.