The problem is not about faith
A great controversy has been unleashed by a decision of the Constitutional Court that oblies the Prosecuter’s Office to rectify false medical informations and biased judicial interpretations in relation with the subject of abortion.
Read MoreFamily fights
It is foten spoken from the friends and the enemies of peace, as if they were two groups clearly distinguished between them. However the talks with the subversive give raise to a more complex debate.
Read MoreOur two wars
In Colombia not one war, but two wars take place: the first one si against subversion and the second one against ilegal drugs. The promoters of these two wars, even though they insist in continue waging these wars, have failed.
Read MoreThe name of things
Language is not a perfect representation of the real world. Words don’t usually have a clear meaning and we frequently don’t know how to name what me see.
Read MoreAltruism’s door
In all democratic countries a certain balance between two main ideals is searched: the ideal of being solidare with people who don’t do well in society, mostly poor persons, sick persons, old persons, persons with disabilities, etc. and the idea that people should be awarded because of their merits and triumphs in social competence. Both of them are ideals of justice; the first one is altruistic, the second one individualistic.
Read MoreMore on homeland love
Three weeks ago, on my column, I criticized the consequences that come from the fact of loving countries as if they were mothers to whom we owe our existence. Daniel Mera, columnist in this journal, criticized me saying that I was mistaking patriotism with nationalism.
Read MoreCulture, geography and institutions
In his recent visit to Jerusalem Mitt Romney, the american presidential candidate, said that the development of nations lied on culture and that this explained the differences between Israel and Palestina.
Read MoreA serious subject, even though it doesn’t seem like it
In the middle of last century we had a railroad network, a social security institute, a national postal, and a telecommunications company. National integration (the little there was) was achieved by these companies. Today almost nothing remains of it. Who then fulfills the function of integrating the country?
Read MoreHomeland atheism
The love for one’s country is a religious feeling as the love for God. Lord Acton had already implied this back in 1862 when he said that “patriotism is in political life what faith is in religious life.”
Read MoreThe wounds of the Cauca
Colombian democracy has two major wounds and bleeds constantly through them.
Read MoreChildren's Heroes
A foreigner friend of mine asked me if I could recomend him any tale in spanish for his 6-year old kid.
Read More¿The end of the Cargimagua model or the end of the Court?
Almost anything has been said about last week’s key news: the non approval of the Rural Statute Law by the Constitutional Court.
Read MoreParticipants selection for the course on Gender and Transitional Justice
The Rosario University, UNIFEM and DeJuSticia announce that the paarticipants selection process for the course on Gender and Transitional Justice is finished.
Read MoreThe choice between freedom or security
As citizens, we face tough risks when the democratic institutions deterioriate until the point of becoming another political system.
Read MoreUnlawful Defenses
The Defense Minister’s statement, declaring that the attacks from Colombia to terrorists that attempt against our population, even if they are not in the national territory are lawful, is legally wrong and politically risky.
Read MoreThe rich people in Latin America
The way people live and even, the way the think and feel, highly depends on what they can buy. As that simple and harsh is the social reality. That’s why rich and poor from every capitalist country are similar, because they buy -or not- the same.
Read MoreMy cellphone was stolen and Samuel does not want to know
I was not going to write this column. I was going to keep my silence, leaving the anger of being stolen while repeating to myself that all this happened for careless. Better said: I was going to do the same as thousands of citizens from Bogota that are stolen in the streets, whose cases the City Hall will never know and that do not have a space in a newspaper to express their feelings.
Read MoreThe future of the past
If there would have to choose a couple of words to describe the national mentality, I’d say these: “short term”. Here we live plunged in punctual and repetitive events that block us from the sequences, the structures and forces that produce them.
Read MoreEl Espectador stands out Dejusticia’s colaboration in the development of the unconstitutionality adress of the Rural Development Law
The project defended by the former Minister of Agriculture, Andres Felipe Arias, is in the tightrope.
Read MoreUnrational Tapping
The phone interceptions that Security Administrative Department has made to some judges, journalist and leaders of the opposition have been doubly illegal.
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