Santos and the Left
Some good new from the first round of the presidential election is the notable votes for the democratic Left thanks to the distinguished campaign of Clara Lopez.
Read MoreImperfect Peace or Perpetual War?
These presidential elections went from being boring to being decisive. The peace process is one of its most crucial and divisive topics, not just because its outcome will profoundly effect our future as a nation, but because the candidates have opposing views about it.
Read MoreInflection Point
In Colombia, elections tend not to lead to big social or political changes.
Read MoreReforming the Justice System during Elections
Next Sunday, the first round, according to surveys, of the presidential election will take place in our country. The election is anxiously awaited by many people in Colombia.
Read MoreLand to Honor the Ancestors
On the afternoon of Tuesday May 13th, Ever de la Rosa Morales, representative of the Community Council of the Islands of Rosario–Orika Homestead, celebrated an important victory for him and 300 other families. After eight years of struggles and waiting, the INCODER notified him that the collective title of the part of the islands where he and other Afro-Colombians live had been granted.
Read MoreWho to Vote Against
Although it sounds improbable, the video showing the public lie and the grave crime Oscar Ivan Zuluaga has committed may not be enough to shut the door to the presidency for Uribe’s party.
Read MoreWho is Responsible for Conserving Protected Areas?
The Yasuni model offers reciprocity and recognition of the ecological debt of industrialized countries by asking the international community pay for the reduction of carbon emissions, the protection of bio-diversity and possibly mitigating grave consequences.
Read MoreThe Fight for the Islands
Victory for the black community in their struggle for their territory.
Read MoreThe Justice of Uribism
Alvaro Uribe is a former president and a senator-elect, but this does not mean he is not a citizen like the rest of us.
Read MoreCaudillo Warriors
Jose Gasper Francia was a Paraguayan president who governed during the first part of the XIX Century.
Read MoreCopenhagen and the environmental justice
THE RESULTS of the Copenhagen Climate Change Conference are disappinting.
Read MoreSave a life at Christmas
Peter Singer argues that people can and should donate much more and thus could eliminate poverty in the world.
Read MoreWithout planet B
Many of humanity’s political changes have been generated by fear rather than ideas. Nowadays, current countries face a danger that comes from themselves, from their productive activity and the deterioration it causes in the environment.
Read MoreRadicalized opponents
The rhetoric of some government opponents show defects similar to those of the President.
Read More“Paper Norms” is considered one of the best books of 2009 by Arcadia Magazine.
As every year, December arrives, and with it the obligation to review the books that filled up the libraries of the country during 2009. These are the novels, books of short stories, essays, journalistic investigations, and the biographies that we recommend to readers.
Read MoreUribe and the pettifoggers revenge
Uribe’s country is one of lawyers. But one full of evil lawyers that are shrewd and disdain the Constitution and the law.
Read MoreDesobey or not-comply
For us (colombians) the offender does not comply with the Law, whereas for others he disobeys it. I ask myself whether that difference says something about the way we are (and that of the Spaniards).
Read MoreUN Rapporteur on the independence of Judges and Lawyers calls for combating discrimination
Gabriela Carina Knaul de Albuquerque, Special rapporteur on the independence of judges and lawyers, said in the Forum, where Rodrigo Uprimny also participated, that she hopes to work for the rights of people that suffer “discrimination and marginalization” in Colombia.
Read MoreJudicial independence and democracy
The visit of Gabriela Knaul de Albuquerque, UN Special Rapporteur on the independence of judges and lawyers, to Colombia is an excelent opportunity for us to think about this issue which affects us all.
Read MoreThe importance of the Attorney General
The confrontation between the Supreme Court and the President over the election of the Attorney has been going on for several months and it may appear to be a boring soap opera. Yet, the issue is extremely serious due to the consequences it has for the country.
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