Lobster for Everyone?
“The Constitutional Court wants all Colombians to eat lobster,” says Alejandro Gaviria in Semana.
Read MoreJustice without Judges
Not all conflicts have to reach the judicial system for resolution given the existence of highly effective mechanisms like direct agreements between parties without the intervention of a third party (be that a judge, conciliator, arbiter, etc.).
Read MoreLaw and Reconciliation in Colombia
Here’s how to achieve both justice and reconciliation.
Read MoreYoreli Rincón’s Goal
Just a few months from the 2015 Women’s FIFA World Cup in Canada, we do not know if the national media will broadcast it.
Read MorePeru and COP 20: Among Violence and Forests
Chota’s death is not an isolated incident within Peru, but rather is yet one of many instances of violence in the history of violence perpetuated against local leaders who fight for the protection of their lands, forests and jungles.
Read MoreRacial Discrimination in Latin America: The “Pigmentocracy” Approach
In general terms, the study proves what many already knew intuitively: the darker the person’s skin tone, the worse his quality of life in Latin America.
Read MoreAn Independent DANE?
Now that the balance of powers has been discussed so widely, is it not worth it to promote a truly independent statistical public institution? (DANE is the Colombian government’s bureaucracy charged with developing statistical reports, much like the U.S. CBO)
Read MoreMediocrity and Fraud
Karl-Theodor Zu Guttembertg, German Minister of Defense and star politician of the center right, had to resign in March 2011 when it was revealed that he had copied parts of his doctoral thesis.
Read MoreDid the Amazon’s lifesaver get punctured?
The Santos adminsitration’s good intentions in the Amazon have been undone by its own actions. As told by La Silla Vacía, in August 2012 ex-Minster of the Environment Frank Pearl, before leaving office, threw a lifesaver for the Amazon. Pearl released Resolution 1518 of 2012, which establishes that no one can drill any part of the Amazon classified as Forest Reserve (according to Law 2 of 1959) for mining activities, until the Ministry of the Environment zoned the territory. In other words, until it defined which areas of the Amazon territory classified as Forest Reserve– the large majority (see Map 1)– should be protected and which can house economic projects, among them mining.
Read MoreRadicalized Environment
We need to “deradicalize” the debate about the environment.
Read MoreHallucinatory arguments
THE THREE REASONS given by the drug czar of the United States, Gil Kerlikowske, to oppose any form of legalization, according to his interview on Sunday in El Tiempo, are hallucinatory.
Read MoreThe problem is not the milk bag
The discussion of unemployment, informality and real incomes of workers should go far beyond the minimum wage increase.
Read MoreReconstruction = competitiveness?
Recently, the President Juan Manuel Santos appointed Jorge Londoño Saldarriaga, the outgoing President of Bancolombia, to manage the country’s reconstruction after the rainy season. According to Semana magazine, this fact shows that the engine of reconstruction will be competitiveness.
Read MoreTwitter, insults and imprisonment
The threat of jail is not the most appropriate way to resolve disputes created in Twitter.
Read MoreSantos, Roosevelt and the Social Pact
SOCIAL CRISIS HAVE TWO positive effects: they strip structures of human collectivities and they shake conventional wisdom.
Read MoreIntellectual Property finally released (II)
“It is better not to believe dreams, even less those one has on Decemeber 28 (April Fools Days)”.
Read MoreDemocracy and public discussion
A significant impact brought by the change of president has been some rehabilitation of public discussion and dissent. In these days when balances of the ending year are being done and wishes for the commencing year are being formulated, we should highlight the democratic importance of this new political atmosphere.
Read MoreIntellectual Property finally released
Today I discovered that the law that legalizes the reproduction of intellectual property was finallly approved.
Read MoreSmile, you’re being filmed
I was encouraged to recall some of the political events of the year with the hope that readers of LSV complete the list.
Read MoreEnvironmental justice and floods
THIS RUNAWAY WINTER doesn’t affect everyone equally. For some of us it represents a slight discomfort.
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