Nationalism and education
One thing is pride, and another one insolence. The proud person will not only be irritated for the insults of others but will also be ashamed by his own mistakes. The same thing happens with the countries have reasons to feel proud: they admit their own mistakes.
Read MoreUnuseful laws
A couple of weeks ago President Santos congratulated the Minister of Justice for setting off a project to banish from the juridical order the unuseful and obsolete laws. If we repeal those laws, Santos said, we could have a “much more gobernable and efficient country”
Read MoreThe “small state”
The president of Uruguay, José Mujica, only receives around a thousand dollars of salary (less than two millions of pesos). He gives the rest of it, 90% of his salary, to social and political causes.
Read MoreThe excess of loyalty
One year and a laf, the former president Uribe was accusing of being disloyal. Today, he accuses him of traidor and swine. How can such an argument between two heads of state? Uribe’s swaggering and the persistance of his political aspirations are, without a doubt, part of that explanation.
Read More“Homo sapiens'” superiority
Eagles have a view ten times stronger than humans, the sense of smell of a dog is fifty times more effective than the one of men and whales and elefants hear thousands of time better than a person. However, by the facto of being ration, human beings consider ourselves better than animals.
Read MoreThe unhappy christmas of Justice
For over 15 years I have been writing and talking good about the colombian justice branch Even after all its tricks and defects, I have believed that the Judicial Branch is the more part of the State that one could more easily rescue.
Read MoreTravelling the old fashion way
I love to travel through the colombian roads. I enjoy passing from one mountain chaine to the other one; crossing the big rivers that come from the Massif; feeling the changes of climate, the smells of the tropic and watching the contrasting and amazing geography of these country.
Read MoreThe paper-made-Colombia
This country has been conceived and imagined from the slopes of the Andes. From there, the politica elites, have comfortably governed, without knowing very well what’s going on in the los lands that surround the three national mountain-chains; just like, centuries ago, it was the imperial authorities from Madrid that managed these colonial territories did the same.
Read MoreSantos’s steril uribism
The number that concerns me the most from the opinion poll “Colombia Opina’ is the 83% of compatriots that propose to disobey the decision of the International Court of Justice (ICJ).
Read MorePocket justice
In case of conflict between justice and law, what should prevail? This has been debated since the classic Greece. There are those who say that justice prevails because it representes a universal value. Others say no, that law prevails because the ideal of justice changes through time.
Read MoreDejusticia’s research about the re-election’s effects was quoted in La Silla Vacia.
One of the principal arguments exposed by those who oppose Uribe’s second re-election is the disturbance of the balance of power granted in the 1991 Constitution.
The entire article may be consulted in:
http://www.lasillavacia.com/historia/2272
From Recyclers to Unwanted?
Some years ago, a recycler that wore the impeccable green overall from Cooperativa Rescatar told me: “Since I wear the uniform neither the Police nor the people that believed I was a thief punch me”.
Read MoreReparations in Colombia: Analysis and Proposals
The reparation of victims of heinous crimes in Colombia is far from being peaceful. Although there is some legal, social, and political consensus that that these victims must be repaired, there are different positions regarding the content and scope of their right to reparation. It is therefore necessary to advance from the general discourse of reparations to victims, now almost universally accepted in Colombia, to a more specific analysis of the thorny issues. This was why in the field of the master’s degree in law from the “Universidad Nacional”, the Research Group “Studies in theory of law, political theory and constitutional law” decided to develop a research and discussion of the reparation of victims of atrocious crimes, trying to analyze, with an interdisciplinary approach, some of the sensitivities in this area. This book collects some of the results of the investigations conducted by master’s degree students who participated in this project. The articles compiled address diverse and complementary topics. Thus, the introduction presents the common conceptual framework that formed the basis for the individual research of each of the authors. The first part contains conceptual reflections and comparative analysis of reparation policies. The second part includes differential approaches to the repair in order to discuss the challenges of repairing indigenous communities and women. Finally, the third part specifically addresses the reparation for the crime of forced displacement. We hope this book is a good input for those who are interested in these issues.
Read MoreComments on the official response to the Decision T-496 of 2008
This document presents some comments to the official response presented by the Ministry of Interior and Justice and the Attorney General’s Office to the case T-496 of 2008, which amended the Decree 3570 of 2007 that established the program of Victim and Witness Protection of Law 975 of 2005. In particular, it identifies the reasons why the Case’ Monitoring Committee believes the answer does not fully and integrally comply the orders issued by the Constitutional Court.
Read MoreDemocratic Coalition
For a democratic country to progress it needs at least these three elements: security, social equality, and respect for the law.
Read MoreRacial discrimination in Colombia
Every 21 of May, Colombians celebrate the National Day of Afro-Colombians in order to commemorate the abolition of slavery in 1851. This national day was established by the Law 975 of 2001.
Read MoreThe Survival of The Past
What I believe is cultural heritage, in spite of globalization, is something more important than what economists and other believe it is. The past survives in our present days.
Read MoreCamilo Sanchez’ column about the stigma of homosexuality was published in the German magazine ILA (No. 35).
ILA, a German magazine, in its edition No. 35 of May 2009 published Camilo Sanchez’ column about the stigma of homosexuality in Colombia.
Read MoreCamilo Sanchez’ column about the stigma of homosexuality was published in the German magazine ILA.
Lieber Narco als schwul? Homosexualität ist in Kolumbien ein Stigma von Nelson Camilo Sánchez Ein Staat kann sich schlecht demokratisch und pluralistisch nennen, wenn seine Behörden ein Verhalten voller Vorurteile, Diskriminierungen und Stigmatisierungen an den Tag legen. Das scheint leider in Kolumbien das übliche Panorama zu sein, zumindest was sexuelle Freiheit und männliche Rollenmodelle betrifft.…
Read MoreUribe should stay
Those who think that the scandals of the Security Department and the “parapolitics” are affecting the President´s closest sphere, are wrong. Uribe will stay because he has no other alternative.
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