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 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.
Read MoreThe vote, the fear and the hope
“People respond more to fear than love” said Richard Nixon long ago, explaining why his political campaigns sought to sow doubts and fears in the electorate.
Read MoreVicepresidency and Human Rights policy
The role of the vice president is crucial in the implementation of human rights public policy. Are the current candidates aware of this?
Read MoreWhat Uribe leaves to Afro-Colombians
PAST WEEK BEGAN Afro-Colombians. Although just and necessary, the celebration has become an annual show which leaves them to the black population.
Read MoreDrug trafficking as a crime against humanity?
IN RECENT DAYS, President Uribe stated a new thesis: drug trafficking should be considered a crime against humanity.
Read MoreThe missing: an endless counter
In recent years a system unifies the cases of people who left their homes and never returned for several reasons; but the families of those who, presumably, were forcibly disappeared complain about the requirement to register “presumed death” in order to have access to humanitarian aid.
Read MoreDisabled horse
MANY ARE outraged, rightly, for Uribe’s statements warning that “little effort of a disabled horse” is not sufficient to ensure safety. They denounced, also rightly, illegal invasion in politics that involves the indirect policy against the Green Party candidate, who has suffered worst attacks in these days.
Read MoreIt wasn’t me, it was the State
An “act of state” does not relieve the responsibility of those who, while carrying it out, violate human rights.
Read MoreThe disappeared and the presidential campaign
Forced disappearance is terrible; any given day, a person is violently stolen from its environment and loses all trace.
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