Darker Than Neymar
When a reporter asked Neymar if he had been discriminated against based on his skin color he replied, “Never, neither on nor off the playing field. Because I’m not Black, right?”
Read MoreHow Fracking and the Shale Gas Revolution Undermine Green Energy Development
The global South should avoid being drawn away from green clean energy sources by the false promises of natural gas and fracking.
Read MoreThe Rule of Law Solely Justifies the Lawsuit against the Inspector General’s Reelection
Some pundits, especially via twitter, have argued that the real reason that Dejusticia, as an institution, and I, personally, have filed this lawsuit against, alongside other organizations, the reelection of the Inspector General Ordóñez is because Dejusticia would have had annual contracts totaling 700 million Colombian pesos (350,000 USD) with Inspector General Maya, which would have been eliminated by Ordóñez.
Read MoreA Luther for Football?
Could it be that football needs some sort of Luther-like figure that can try to reform and above all make more ethical the Papacy of FIFA, even at the risk that it could lead to a veritable football schism? It’s a metaphor worth exploring.
Read MoreThe Military Service Registration Certificate and the High School Diploma
Every year I spend a few days in the Aguadas (Caldas) municipality, in a small village called Salineros located on the peak of a mountain; it provides, to my knowledge, the best view of the Central mountain range.
Read MoreIt’s Time for Transparency
In Havana peace negotiations make progress while in Colombia there is no ceasefire.
Read MorePrison for Protecting the Land
“Other indigenous communities in Peru, in similar cases regarding the protection of their land, are afraid to protest because the ghost of the Baguazo is always there.”
Read MoreThe Internal Morality of Football
Is there a morality in football and, if so, could it serve as a source of moral teachings?
Read MoreA New Development Plan?
While the Government has revisited the mining development plan because it has not performed as well as it originally hoped, a new development plan seems to have come to the fore: “fracking” or unconventional gas extraction. We still have time to stop it.
Read MoreHomeland, God and Football
The Romanian poet Lucian Blaga once said: “after having discovered that life is without meaning, what we are left with is to give it one.”
Read MoreInterview to César Rodríguez Garavito in “Ámbito Jurídico”
For the first time in the history of the Law & Society Association, its board will consist of a Latin American teacher: the Colombian lawyer César Augusto Rodríguez Garavito, elected for the period 2010-2012.
Read MoreAt least honest people
WHAT IS MOST IMPORTANT, having good laws or having good rulers? Greeks discussed this 25 centuries ago.
Read MoreFrom buses to banks: who controls private power?
FOUR DAYS LOST BY A STRIKE, multiplied by millions of people. That’s what Bogotá just experienced, a city besieged not by old pirates but by transport buccaneers.
Read MorePending debt to women
A tribute in their International Day would be going against the impunity of sexual violence in armed conflict.
Read MoreMoving on
NOW that the judicial decision on the referendum has been taken, after many months of uncertainty, it is natural that public opinion, especially Uribe’s followers, wants to forget the recent past to concentrate on the presidential campaign with the obvious frenzy a three month electoral debate produces.
Read MoreThe Constitutional Court as a democracy guarantor
IN GENERAL, the Constitutional Court’s decision that annulled the re-election referendum has been welcomed. Yet,some commentators, such as Alfredo Rangel, have questioned it for obstructing people’s participation. Basically, it seems an undemocratic decision.
Read MoreDemocracy and the referendum’s failure
THE DECISION of the Constitutional Court, which prevented the referendum from going on, was legally predictable and very significant for Colombian democracy because it protected the Rule of Law and ensured a fairer electoral competition.
Read MoreThe costs of Uribe’s electoral system
In recent years the coalition that supports President Uribe in Congress took three decisions that will result in political impunity and lack of discipline in these elections.
Read MoreEasy case
WHEN writing this op-ed, the Court’s decision on the referendum is yet unknown. Since I can’t talk about it, I will discuss judicial work.
Read MoreWill the referendum fail to be approved 7-2 in the Constitutional Court?
Two weeks ago, I published an op-ed that predicted the fall of the referendum on the Constitutional Court with a 7-2 vote based due to procedural vices. As the decision approaches, everyone is making their bets on the final result of the Court.
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