Yes or No to Peace? But What about Health Care?
We have all lived and suffered through the disproportionate focus on the topic of peace in the debates as the only and most important difference between the candidates. Little has been said about other substantive topics, like health care, education or the environment that are as vital as peace and in the end help realize it.
Read MoreHuman Rights: Gated Community or Ecosystem?
The global community of human rights advocates and scholars rightly criticizes the spread of gated communities worldwide, patrolled by private security and in which the elite find protection.
Read MoreShould They Search Me?
Tomorrow June 5th is the anniversary of the Edward Snowden revelations about Obama’s surveillance program. All the while, in our country we have had so much illegal wiretapping going on we could win an award. All the wiretapping makes some people blush. But why is there so much scandal surrounding some young techies who allied with political leaders want to create a society where there is nothing to hide?
Read MoreUribism’s “Peace without Impunity”
The ambiguities and contradictions of Uribism on peace. It is both paradoxical can tragic: the most popular and politicized topic in this election, peace, is at the same time the one that is less discussed.
Read MoreWho to Vote Against (II)
The presidential elections will be decided by undecided voters: the abstainers who doubt whether or not to leave their homes on June 15th, those who voted blank in the first round, the independents who voted for Peñalosa, the people on the Left who were left without a candidate and the conservatives respectful of the law who, with good reason, hesitate in following Marta Lucia jump toward Uribism.
Read MoreWithout the Right to Be Disenchanted
There are elections that are somewhat routine; they don’t entail major changes. But there are other that are decisive because they effect the destiny of a society for decades.
Read MoreThe Ethics of Responsiblity
In an interview published in this newspaper, Senator Jorge Robledo reiterated his idea that Santos, Zuluaga and Uribe are the same thing, and insinuated that to maintain ideological coherence and defend his principles, he will not vote for any of them.
Read MoreThe Doors that are Opening from Havana
The third agreement is of great importance for the country and for the construction of peace, because it substantially advances certain aspects that are key for Colombia.
Read MoreLess Jail, More Health
While in Colombia we remain immersed in the debate about the presidential elections and the second round, the agreement that they reached in Havana in the third point of the peace negotiations have passed unnoted.
Read MoreRegulating Drones to Protect Human Rights
Regardless of what we do not know about State drone surveillance activities, recent events in various States make it clear that regulation is needed.
Read MoreA plan against racism
THE CURIOUS photo of President Uribe receiving in his farm the U.S. State Deputy, James Steinberg, has filled up the newspapers these days. What has not been discussed is an agreement signed at the meeting which may be significant for millions of Afro-Colombian and indigenous discrimination victims.
Read MoreToo many fines and few collection
These days, I took a cab to go downtown. The driver was one of those who like to talk. He asked me if I had news of the strike. What strike?, I said. The transport strike, he replied.
Read MoreProhibition equals regression
Colombia has recently made an amendment to the Constitution which bans the carrying and use of personal doses of narcotics. This report shows the changes involved in this reform and assesses the main implications, at least, at policy level
Read MoreThe concept of the Solicitor General.
THE INSPECTOR GENERAL’S CONCEPT on the re-election referendum is, from a strictly legal point of view, very poor because of serious methodological flaws, serious regulatory improprieties, logical inconsistencies, and a risky constitutional philosophy for those who defend the Rule of Law.
Read MoreRodrigo Uprimny and Mauricio García Villegas in Veredicto
Rodrigo Uprimny and Mauricio García Villegas faced Rodrigo Rivera in the program Veredicto of Canal Capital.
Read MoreReductio ad absurdum
POLITICAL POSITIONS have their typical ways of interpreting the Constitution.
Read MoreChavez and the U.S. bases
Chavez’s reaction to the loan of Colombian bases to the US was predictable. Yet, the reaction of the Colombian government was very surprising.
Read MoreAlbert Camus today
YESTERDAY, JANUARY 4th, was the 50th anniversary of the senseless death in a traffic accident of the theorist of the absurd, the French writer, and philosopher Albert Camus.
Read MoreForced diet
The world reached a frightening number of people living with extreme hunger which nobody seems to care.
Read MoreSin and forgiveness
In Christmas times I always think that all religions, like people, have their strengths and their weaknesses.
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