Thinking about it Twice
Last week President and presidential candidate Juan Manuel Santos said that he would think twice before giving the order to get rid of FARC commander Timochenko.
Read MoreComing Back to Patience
In the last couple of weeks I have been out of the country with little access to the news, and I have been learning about what is happening by reading yeterday´s newspaper.
Read MoreThank You Daniel
I learned to read the newspaper with Daniel Samper Pizano, with his columns and his delicious articles.
Read MoreThe case of Alonso Salazar: the State Council Scolds the Inspector General
Two years after being removed from office by Inspector General Ordóñez, the State Council decided in favor of former Medellin mayor Alonso Salazar. His case and the arguments he made could set an important precedent with important repercussions.
Read MoreCrop spraying and the Precautionary Principle
A State Council decision issued on December 11, 2013, which is very important but that went unnoticed, leads one to conclude that we should suspend fumigations using glyphosate because it violates the precautionary principle.
Read MoreThe Lies about Accessing HIV-AIDS Treatment
Instead of automatically accessing the tiered price that Abbott had globally committed to, for Colombia as well as Ecuador, it took the mobilization of HIV patients, public health advocates and government intervention to finally get the price they were in theoretically entitled to.
Read MoreA new world is possible
Every day I like good documentaries more and more; I like them almost as much as I like good movies.
Read MorePeace or Justice? An Old Yet Current Dilemma
Amnesties and other dilemmas of how to obtain justice in times of transitions are far from being a concern of only a few violent countries in the Global South, and unfortunately, they are far from being a topic of the past.
Read MoreMembers of Congress by Chance
Senators Bernardo Ñoño and Musa Besaile, from Córdoba, recieved 140,000 and 145,000 votes respectively in this past election.
Read MorePopular Consultations in Latin America
As the use of consultations has grown alongside strong citizen rejection of extractivism, there has also been an increase of government and business efforts to stop them.
Read MoreThe Dean and the public university
I am saying to show how old the debate over public universities is and how little progress we have accomplished in the solution of this problem.
Read MorePublic intervention concerning Law 21 of May 1851 in relation to slaves liberty.
Dejusticia, member of the Observatory on Racial Discrimination, pronounced itself against the Law 21 of May 1851 related to slaves liberty.
Read MorePublic intervention concerning Law 21 of May 1851 in relation to slaves liberty.
This public intervention presents the reasons why the Constitutional Court should not declare itself inhibited when deciding the present case. Instead, it suggests the Court to order the issuing of a public policy that guarantees integral and collective reparation for the African descendant population in Colombia who suffered the crime of slavery. The mentioned repation policy should not take place before previous consultation with the affected communities is carried out.
Read MoreManual for firing columnists
Fortunately, Héctor Abad (a recognized newspaper columnist) magnified the affair Claudia López vs. El Tiempo into the real dilemma. That is to say, to choose between a newspaper’s right to fire a columnist and the columnist’s freedom of expression
Read MoreLatin American identity
Latin America will only be worldwide recognized insofar it is faithful to its mestizo and mulatto identities
Read MoreJournalism and politics
Claudia Lopez’ firing from El Tiempo has triggered an interesting debate over the relationship between columnists, newspapers, and readers.
Read MoreTax loopholes: Only for the rich?
The “Agro Ingreso Seguro” subsidies scandal is fully justified. However, this incident should remind us of another recurrent episode: excesive tax privileges granted by the government.
Read MoreSectarian patriotism
Winning a Nobel Prize is comparable to winning a world championship. This is the reason why when somebody receives the prize, his fellow citizens celebrate the event as a national victory.
Read MoreA Court without autonomy?
Whoever says the referendum case has been resolved by the Constitutional Court does not know how this Court operates.
Read More“Uribe is a clear demonstration of Turbay’s survival”
Mauricio García Villegas and Javier Eduardo Revelo, researchers of Dejusticia, documented the impacts of Uribe’s first re-election in Colombia’s democracy.
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