Ebola: Tragedy or Injustice?
Funds only appear when these illnesses get close to Europe and North America.
Read MoreThe Prison Problem in Colombia
For Carolina Villadiego the problem in the country’s prisons stems from various causes, the judicial strike among them.
Read MorePat-Downs, Up to Discretion?
In Colombia we have not seriously debated in what cases the police in a public space can stop, ask for identification, or pat-down a person.
Read MoreIntellectual Impunity and Violence
What relationship exists between the following four individual sentences?
1) Paul Gauguin’s paintings are much more beautiful than Vincent van Gogh’s; 2) God exists as three distinct persons, Father, Son, and the Holy Spirit; 3) the protection of the environment should be done in such a manner that it does not compromise property rights; and 4) energy is neither created nor destroyed, it is only transformed.
Read MoreSecrets among Company…
Secrets serve the intimacy of its keeper. As such, last month Apple released the new iPhone 6 with a surprising technological feature: the possibility to protect your cellphone’s photos, contacts, and certain information with a password that no one else can have access to.
Read MoreBrazil’s Alternative
What is at stake on Sunday is more than the presidency of Brazil.
Read MoreLaw of Fallow Lands: A New Obstacle for Peace
The Fallow Lands Bill presented a few weeks ago by the National Governments disregards the agreements crafted in Havana regarding the integral agrarian development policy.
Read MoreWrongful Sentences in Latin America
Sentencing and sanctioning innocents is a severe failure on the part of the judiciary. Preventing wrongful sentences should be a priority, and thus knowing its causes is fundamental. However, to what degree is this occurring? The empirical evidence suggests it is quite common and deserves serious attention.
Read MoreFracking Lessons for the Global South
Before we undertake fracking, we should learn to listen to citizens, to make decisions about development based on the voices that live on the land and will be affected by those decisions.
Read MoreIncreasing Military Jurisdiction
The government approved in first debate the bill to increase military tribunals’ jurisdiction and thus revive the constitutional reform, which the Constitutional Court annulled last year due to procedural shortcomings.
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.
Read MoreAnalysis on the victims law in Colombia
Nelson Camilo Sánchez analyzes the victims law in Colombia.
Read MoreCriminal law and social protest
As part of the publication “Is criminalization of social protest legitimate?”, Rodrigo Uprimny and Luz Maria Sanchez analyze the types of crimes that can be used to suppress the protests in the Colombian context.
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