Politics and Human Rights
The challenge is to close the gap between the abuses of each one of these extremes.
Read MoreOut of Place
This is an unpopular column. It is for all those maladjusted people that do not get excited about football (we are only 6% of the Colombian population, according to a survey done by YouGov).
Read MoreLand Restitution: Between Advances and Obstacles
Three years have passed since the Colombian Congress passed the Law of Victims and two and a half years since the land restitution process began. The facts and data show that it is neither an absolute success as the government claims nor a total failure as its critics argue.
Read MoreAdvances in Equality, But Lethal Prejudices
Yesterday on June 28th many around the world celebrated LGBT pride.
Read MoreFootball and Citizen Culture
The recent victories of the Colombian national team not only has underscored noble sentiments of national unity and patriotism, but also the difficulty we Colombians have in celebrating without violence.
Read MoreSantos’ Debts
In his second term, the Santos administration should fulfill its promises to indigenous groups, afro-descendant communities and rural workers.
Read MoreCompulsory Voting without Democracy?
Given that Colombia has been a country historically afflicted with low electoral turn-out, each election cycle commentators argue in favor and against compulsory voting.
Read MoreThank you Juan Ricardo Ortega
The best public officer of Santos’ government and the best tax collector in recent history is leaving.
Read MoreSoccer and Peace
Since we have already defeated the Ivory Coast, I can express without hesitation my admiration for their star Didier Drogba.
Read MoreColombia is Passion
They say that Zeus, the God of the Heavens and Earth, seeing that men were getting bored, giften them their passions.
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.
Read MoreParadisiacal diplomacy
The allegations against retired General Mario Montoya question once more the integrity of Colombian foreign service.
Read MoreThe abuse of words
THE CLOSURE OF THE MAGAZINE Cambio has produced social and political reactions of all kinds.
Read More