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The requirement of marching on March 6th
The citizens should show solidarity to all the victims and should condemn all the atrocities in the same way, without introducing hierarchies among them.
Read MoreThe third force
If those of February 4th are right wingers and those of March 6th are leftists, what are we who will participate in both marches?
Read MoreThe Court’s journey
Danilo Rojas, professor at the National University and a founding member of Dejusticia, emphasizes the importance of encouraging the practice initiated by the Constitutional Court to be in session in cities other than Bogotá.
Read MoreTo march without warning
By giving a proper name to the victimizer, he fortifies civil society, gains autonomy and his own voice.
Read MoreWhat about the other victims and other atrocities?
The tests of survival of those kidnapped by the FARC have also resulted in tests of shame, and they show what was already known: the terrible conditions in which the kidnapped are found. It is natural that these tests have awoken the sensibility of citizens and have caused protests against the abductions by the FARC, a practice that is completely unacceptable.
Read MoreThe death of a historic judicial milestone? The Brown sentence and educative integration
It is doubtable that the central role of the contemporary constitutionalism has placed a part in the case of Brown vs. Board of Education of Topeka decided by the Supreme Court of the United States in 1954. Many of us educate ourselves admiring the capacity of the social transformation that Brown embodied. For the legal modern conscience, Brown is the clearest sign that the law can be a motivator in social transformation and for human emancipation.
Read MoreChávez and the FARC
This article gives three reasons why the support from the Venezuelan president to the FARC complicates things for Colombia.
Read MoreThe rural country without State presence
A measure that as one moves further away from the State capitals it vanishes. The power is in the hands of the State’s intermediaries.
Read More2008: the year of local public politics
The first thing that the next 1096 mayors and 32 governors should do starting January 1, 2008 is to coordinate the elaboration of their respective local plans of development as well as a sort of comprehensive four year plan. The eradication of certain practices evil in their design and approval and determined civic participation in their procedure, will be the key for recognition in the local environment.
Read MoreThe Gentleman’s Club on a Electronic Platform: An Institutional Analysis of the Colombian Stock Exchange
“The stock exchange is a medium power in the economic fight”, wrote Max Weber in 1894 in a pedagogical pamphlet on the theme. In the same way as a war needs “rifles y cannons”, “a strong market” is necessary in times of peace, when “the nations continue their inexorable and inevitable fight by their national existence and economic power” (in Swedberg 1998: 184).
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