The Female Judges
For the first time after more than 20 years, 3 of the 9 judges of the Constitutional Court are women. A delightful fact but one that does not stop being questionable.
Read MoreHealth Versus Trade All Over Again
What seems to be at stake here is not the safety of the patients but rather the profits of a booming pharmaceutical market.
Read MoreRevolving Door
While the government proposes to close the embarrassing revolving door between the courts, it widens the entrance to appoint the Super-Minister Néstor Humberto Martínez.
Read MoreGalán, Drugs, and Mafias
Juan Manuel Galán presented a bill to legalize the use of medicinal marijuana on the 25th year anniversary of his father’s assassination.
Read MoreThe Two Faces of the Past
In the last op-eds I have argued with Eduardo Posada Carbó and other commentators have joined the debate, among them Santiago Montenegro, Óscar Guardiola, and Darío Acevedo.
Read MorePolitical Participation and Post-Conflict
In agreement with what President Juan Manuel Santos has expressed publicly multiple times, one of the primary objectives of the peace process is for the guerrilla members to change “bullets for votes.”
Read MoreThe Cost of Being a Woman
It is expensive to be a woman in our capitalist and sexist society.
Read MoreA Country Full of Doctors
Even though a Mexican came up with it, I have always thought that the classic conversation of Chespirito provides an insightful commentary of the Colombian reality: —Hey, Lucas. —Tell me, college graduate. —College graduate! —Thank you, thank you very much!
Read MoreHumanitarian Crisis to Wait until after Recess
Until appropriate action is taken, child migrants will lie within the purgatory of political inaction in the face of crisis.
Read MoreWhite-Skinned Maid Needed
The high-profile case of racial discrimination in Cali in which a classified employment ad stated the need for a “white-skinned” female surgical physician brought attention to a common phenomenon in the city with one of the largest afrodescendant populations in the country (27% of Cali’s population is afrodescendant according to the last census).
Read MoreThe white man’s burden
The self-imposed “white man’s burden” in the twenty-first century is no longer civilize uncivilized and savage peoples from afar, but to save the poor Muslims from ignorance and tyranny of their own culture.
Read MoreIndependence: pending tasks
TODAY JULY 20th, the day we celebrate the 200th anniversary of the “Grito de Independencia”, it is worthwhile to ask ourselves whether or not the challenges faced by the first generation of Colombians are still pending.
Read MoreThird follow-up report to Auto 092 of 2008
The Corporation Casa de la Mujer, the Consultancy for Human Rights and Displacement (CODHES), the Corporation Sisma Women, the Colombian Women’s Initiative Partnership for Peace (IMP), the Women’s Pacific Route, the Center for the Study of Law, Justice, and Society – Dejusticia, the Working Group on Women and Armed Conflict, the Colombian Commission of Jurists, the Lawyers Collective José Alvear Restrepo, and the League of Displaced Women, meeting in follow-up committee to the order issued to the Attorney General and the invitation to the Inspector General’s Office regarding the annex of the Auto 092, 2008 of the Constitutional Court, together with the National Indigenous Organization of Colombia, ONIC, present the third monitoring report which intends to demonstrate that the entities in charged of effectively implementing the Auto 092 have not done so, reason why the Court’s intervention in the matter is requested.
Read MoreWhere is the Green Party?
IN 1911, ROBERT MICHELS formulated one of the most popular thesis in political science: the “iron law of oligarchy.” According to this thesis, political parties have an inescapable destiny: to become bureaucratic machines dominated by leaders who, sooner or later, forget the bases.
Read MoreIngrid Betancourt: difference or indifference?
It produces a distaste that her expectation is a very high economic compensation instead of proclaiming a broader and more universal repair for millions of victims in Colombia.
Read MoreReferee errors and law
DOES LAW HAVE ANYTHING TO SAY about how to deal with the obvious referee errors committed in this World Cup, such as Lampard’s goal against Germany?
Read MoreWithout tits there’s no law
EIGHT POWERFUL ARGUMENTS convinced the congressman to approve the Fanny Mikey Act which protects the copyright of Colombian actors.
Read MoreSantos and justice
In his first statement after winning the elections, President-elect Santos referred to the Colombian justice system in terms quite reassuring.
Read MoreThe justice of the new president
A scene seems to be a replica of the other.
Read MoreSecurity, legality and democracy
“If men were angels, no government would be necessary. If angels were to govern men, neither external nor internal controls on government would be necessary.
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