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To penalize for reform
The first action is to purify the reformer, Congress, so that it has the ethical capacity to reform.
Read MoreThe Repair Decree that makes amends for victims: more rhetorical than effective
The Repair Decree utilizes the generous rhetoric of protection of the rights of victims, but turns to institutional mechanisms that impedes on their efficiency.
Read MoreThe language of the law
The leaders of the law, like Rafael Nieto, should begin by clearly fixing their political positions.
Read MoreWhat happened to Colombian diplomacy in this region?
As many Latin-Americans see the global antiterrorist campaign as an instrument of service to the United States, is not effective in the region of antiterrorism used by Colombia.
Read MoreRewards without grief or glory
The reward to the guerrilla that killed Iván Ríos shows the weaknesses of criminal politics and the serious effects on equality before the penal law.
Read MoreGovernment of the people
The summit of Santo Domingo showed that we depend more on the mood of leaders than on diplomacy and international law.
Read MoreThe risks of a preventive defense
Two basic reasons have led for some analysts to justify the Colombian incursion against the FARC in Ecuadorian territory: that Colombia would have acted in legitimate defense and that its conduct would have a basis in the resolution of 1373 of the UN Security Council, that prohibits the states from harboring terrorist groups and that Ecuador would have violated this prohibition.
Read MoreInvisible Suffering
Society is mobilized alone now because before had not closely seen the suffering of those kidnapped.
Read MoreThe Right and the march
If the left awkwardly entangled itself with the march against the FARC, the right shows their true colors with their march this Thursday, to which I will leave as I left on February 4. And, as the “Facebook” protest clarified the need of a left that does not doubt condemning the FARC, one that will clearly allow the right we have and which we need.
Read MoreValue formation for future professionals in law
This is the theme from the behind the times considered the ink bottle suggestion from a group of students at the Cooperative University of Popayán. I was delayed in addressing this because it does not turn out to be easy to speak of the relation between law and values without falling into commonplace or easy sermons. Law students from all over the country have deep concerns about the ethical exercise of the lawyer profession and it does not seem that the faculties or lawyers are responding adequately to address this need.
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