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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.

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Unuseful 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”

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The “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.

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The 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.

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“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.

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The 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.

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Travelling 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.

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The 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.

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Pocket 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.

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Reparations 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.

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Comments 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.

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Camilo 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.…

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