Subways and divided highways
In the subways of the great cities of the world hundreds of thousands of people mobilize every day.
Read MoreThree events and three lessons
Last Thursday the justice reform was given burial. Thus ends one of the most painful episodes of the institutional history of this country. From everything that occurred I feature three events and pull three lessons.
Read MoreDid your representative in Congress look bad?
As we wactch justice reform become a turbulent river, it is a good time to look back and ask ourselves if we would reelect the representatives in Congress we elected back then.
Read MoreAppropriate justice
The justice reform that has just been approved by the Congress is similar to President Uribe’s re-election referendum in 2009. Both sought to amend the Constitution to benefit its promoters: Uribe, to be kept in power, and the congressmen, to have a more benevolent justice for themselves.
Read MoreStories of evil people
I do not like national television. I can’t stand the amount of bad and misleading advertising and I hate the way the private channels manipulate the viewer, changing times and duration of programs.
Read MoreThe arrogance embodied in the Constitution
Nearly three weeks ago Eduardo Merlano refused to perform an alcohol breath test on a police checkpoint with the lewd argument that he was a senator.
Read MoreA country without guerrilla
Imagination plays an important role in the construction of social reality. So it is worth asking questions like: What would Colombia be without FARC?
Read MoreLove your neighbor
Two weeks ago I wrote a column about the letter that Monsignor Juan Vicente Cordoba sent to the country’s Catholics to alert them of the eventual approval of child adoption by same-sex couples in the Constitutional Court.
Read MoreWho do you think you are?
On Sunday morning, on the streets of Barranquilla, the police stopped Senator Eduardo Merlano.
Read MoreGay dignity
Related to the decision the Constitutional Court will soon take regarding the adoption of children by same-sex couples, Monsignor Juan Vicente Cordoba, secretary of the Episcopal Conference, sent a letter (http://bit.ly/IN2tHX) to Catholics where he invites them to unite against the Courts decisions in matters of life and family.
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.
Read MoreDrugs and Practice Savvy
Two news articles surfaced this week about drugs. On Tuesday, the President scolded the Director of Public Prosecutions, saying that penalizing the minimum consumption of illicit drugs was not effective. He asserted that instead of repressing, we had to educate.
Read MoreThe peruvian Newspaper La Republica, highlights the participation of Dejusticia in developing the document “Sexual Violation as Crime Against Humanity”
The legal document “Sexual Violation as Crime Against Humanity” will be presented
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