Citizen Culture
The antipathy toward the word “culture” from those who profess ideas of the extreme right is well know.. “When I hear people talk about culture, I pull out my gun,” the Nazi leader H. Goering once said.
Read MoreThe Affirmative Action Debate Moves South
The critiques of affirmative action that academics and news outlets like The Economist offer show how difficult it is for society to change the status quo of inequality, where goods and opportunties are only available to certain groups.
Read MoreIntellectual Revolutions
The insensitivity to social injustice and dogmatism are, in my opinion, two of the biggest ideological obstacles for the development of Latin America.
Read MoreFrom Inequality to Creativity: Funding Human Rights Organizations in the Global South
This is an invitation. An invitation to respond to a difficult landscape of inequality and shortage with creativity, with new ideas, not just to get more funding but also to be more efficient and independent.
Read MoreThe Catholic Opinion
In a previous column about the Catholic Church’s campaigns against abortion, gay marriage, euthanasia and divorce, I said that it seemed as though Catholics today were listening to Martin Luther, 500 years too late.
Read MoreInternet without Wiretapping
Norms are created more slowly than the rapid pace at which technology advances, therefore there is often a disconnect between the rules and the reality they are applied to.
Read MoreMilitary Intelligence
In a country that is in fourth to last place in PISA student-testing, where no university is among the top 400 of the world and no research center is among the top 600, it is deplorable (to say the least) that we only speak about intelligence when we denounce abuses of so-called “military intelligence.”
Read MoreCourt Decisions: Just Words on a Paper?
The Court ordered their governments to protect their rights, such as their right to free, prior, informed consultation and their right to their territory. Yet, in every case, the governments have failed to obey the Court’s orders.
Read MoreEthics and Economics
Some weeks I can’t find a topic to write about and on others I have too many topics. On this occassion I have in mind three topics: one about the Oxfam report about global inequality published on January 20th, another about President Obama´s State of the Union last Tuesday, and another about a conference that Michael Sandel gave last Thursday at Los Andes University.
Read MoreRepeating Oneself and Expecting a Different Result
About 15 years ago, the national government passed a law regulating the prior consultation process without, ironically, consulting the ethnic communities first.
Read MoreObstinate individualism
Many years ago, in Medellín, there was a placard in the bridge of St. 33 that said ” If this isn’t progress then what is it?”
Read MoreReferendum and public offices
A sentence that deals with meritocracy will be essential when deciding if the referendum that seeks presidential re-election passes the constitutionality test.
Read MoreArgentinian newspaper (Página/12) interviews Rodrigo Uprimny about Dejusticia’s strategic litigation.
Uprimny, jurist and ex-member of the Colombian Constitutional Court, stated that this Court must declare unconstitutional the reform that seeks President Uribe’s third re-election.
Read MoreWhat the hell do I care?
Anyone who has visited Buenos Aires may have noticed that the city is full of Colombian tourists and students
Read MoreReform or replacement?
We all thought the history of abuses had been buried with the 1991 Constitution. Not true. With the referendum’s approval this week, history repeated itself: the essential was replaced by the the accessory.
Read MoreParanoia and Health Plan in the U.S.
In order to kill Obama’s Health Plan, opponents have used sensationalist, irrational, and uninformed arguments
Read MoreUribe’s re-election against Uribe
There’s enough evidence that the Government has promised congressmen regional investment in exchange of approval of Uribe’s re-election.
Read MoreHéctor Abad Gómez
The murder of two important persons of the late twentieth century is commemorated in August.
Read MoreInternational Day of the World’s Indigenous people
Today, International Day of the World’s Indigenous People, there is nothing to celebrate in Colombia
Read MoreProtecting the Book Fair
Two days after the Book Fair’s closure, the controversy over the results turned hot
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