Cumbiamba for Barranquilla
An intersection of four streets is closed off to cars in Barranquilla. A cumbiamba is installed in the center. A wheel of people dancing cumbia of all colors moves around it. Hips move. Foreheads sweat. Skirts wave amid the remains of a December breeze.
Read MorePiketty… and Pickett
Probably the book of the year in social sciences was the text by Thomas Piketty, Capital in the 21st Century, which in certain aspects is a call for egalitarian politics. The Piketty’s central thesis is well-known as many have commented on his book and as such my analysis is very short.
Read MoreAnd the Patients Wait for the Plant…
The year ended and the Senate plenary did not advance the debate about medicinal marijuana. In the session Monday 15 December everything seemed favorable for Senator Galán’s bill.
Read MoreThe Keys of the High Courthouse
29 years after the facts, the Inter-American Court of Human Rights released a sentence in which it found the Colombian State responsible for the military operation for the retaking of the Courthouse.
Read MoreTo Give or Not to Give
The countries with British influence celebrated today the 26th of December Boxing Day.
Read MoreHuman Rights and the Thawing of the U.S.-Cuba Deep Freeze
Much work lies ahead for the thawing of the long freeze between the U.S. and Cuba. Part of this work, if it is to succeed, will involve a broader and deeper assessment of Cuba in all its social and political complexity, and an imagining of what a 21st century relationship between Cuba and the U.S. might look like
Read MoreWhat Are We Going to Eat for the Holidays?
Holiday meals provide us an opportunity to demand more information from the food industry.
Read MorePeace with Impunity for Everyone?
José Manuel Acevedo, who seems to be very well informed, explained in a recent column in Semana.com that a proposal is circulating for a type of blanket amnesty law, that would be looked at by many political leaders, including the president and the attorney general.
Read MoreBetween Idealism and Cynicism
Last Sunday the paper published an article by James Robinson where he argued that it is not possible to modernize the country with programs of land redistribution, as the negotiations in Havana seek to do.
Read MoreNew York: No to Fracking
With the prohibition of fracking in New York state, announces just a few days ago, three things become clear for the debate in Colombia and other countries.
Read MoreSaying armed conflict
A sentence from President Santos and two words in the victims law were enough to revive the ideological broadside against the recognition of an internal armed conflict.
Read MoreThe armed conflict in Colombia
The uribist thesis that affirms that Colombia does not undergo an armed conflict but a terrorist threat against democracy does not stand examination, is empirically false, and is based on conceptual misunderstandings.
Read MoreMining, land and Afro-Colombian communities
Mining and other economic projects have jeopardized the territories of Afro-Colombian communities. The Racial Discrimination Watch collected testimonies from experts and community leaders affected by this situation
Read MoreDiscriminatory counter-reform
The bill of political counter-reform that advances in Congress seeks, among other things, to remove the quota that forces the parties to conform their lists to public corporations (municipal councils or the Congress itself), with at least 30% of women.
Read MoreReggaeton-eros
What to do for the eros of reggaeton to avoid focusing only on the “gasoliiiiiiiiiiina”?
Read MoreAnother “little article” or goodbye to the writ for legal protection of fundamental rights
THE DEBATE ON THE project underway in the Congress that converts fiscal sustainability a constitutional principle was set on. In this sense, this reform has become “popular”. And indeed it is, for three reasons: it is unnecessary, inconvenient, and unconstitutional.
Read MoreColombia: complex violence (Interview to Rodrigo Uprimny)
Interview to Rodrigo Uprimny about violence in Colombia and the necessity of security policies that take into account the deeply unequal society we have in Latin America.
Read MoreDevelopment plan and human rights
TO WHAT EXTENT does the Development Plan (PND) of government Santos, who will be discussed this week by the plenary of the Congress, take a human rights approach?
Read MoreSantos, without gender policy
In one of the presidential debates last year, Sergio Fajardo asked the following question to Juan Manuel Santos: What’s your proposal for women in Colombia?
Read MoreThe abuse of states of emergency
With the Constitution of 1991 we Colombians overcame the permanent exceptionalism lived with the Constitution of 1886, as shown by the first report of Dejusticia on the 20 years of the Charter.
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