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 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.
Read MoreRacial discrimination in Colombia: alternative report submitted to the UN Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination.
This report describes the effects of the State’s inaction towards the situation of constant discrimination both Afro-Colombian and indigenous peoples are subject to. Despite some progress in this area, the current circumstances demonstrate how the absence of public policy measures and affirmative action that enable ethnic groups to overcome marginalization and to eradicate the racial discrimination they suffer continue to prevail.
Read MoreA statute for the victims that got stuck on the way
Camilo Sanchez’ concept was referenced in the Reparations Dossier of the International Center for Transitional Justice-ICTJ.
Read MoreThe reelection against democracy
The main argument of the reelection referendum defenders is that it is legitimate and democratic because answers to the people’s will.
Read MoreThe State Council and the democratic Security
In the case of the soldier-peasant Guzman, hurt by the guerilla, the court failed against the army because it broke the law.
Read MorePeople to Order
It has been surpirsing for me how foreigners get easily used to the cold tropic that is Bogota.
Read MoreEvading the abortion in the General Attorney
It was evident. For the elections the attorney Ordoñez promissed not to evade the sentences of the Constitutional Court, that are against his moral conceptions, but are obligatory, as well as the sentences that protect the rights of homosexuals, and the right of the woman to abort when raped, or victim of incest or her health is in risk.
Read MoreNotes from Honduras: Constituent Power and Reelection
Honduras President Manuel Zelaya proposed a “fourth ballot box” for the next electoral contest. In late 2009, there will be elections for president, congress and municipal governments. The idea of the “fourth ballot box” is convening a Constituent Assembly to change the Honduran Constitution of 1982.
Read MoreUribe and the Mermaids
Homer in the Odyssey that the Mermaids of the Mediterranean had a beautiful chant that when the sailors listened to it, they went blinded to them and finished crashed against the corals, if not they died in the place, killed by the mermaids.
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