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 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
Read MoreColombia, Beloved Land
The Constitutional Court has just made an ultimatum to the government so it redesigns it’s Protection and Land Restitution policy.
Read MoreAmazon: gratitude to the paperback books crisis
Today I say goodbye to the paperback books. And I bet you already took that step or will do it in five or ten years.
Read MoreThe Sidewalks
Everytime I go to a city or a town, I take a look on the sidewalks: how they are made, how large they are, if they have ramps or not, and so on.
Read MoreThe protagonist Ombudsman
We have an Ombudsman who affirms to be commited with Human Rights without protagonism and that paradoxically is the protagonist of some scandals.
Read MoreDrugs and Common Sense
Which must be the democratic answer to the problem of Drugs and it’s trafficking? That’s a question with obvous importance to the Colombians.
Read MoreThe Suspicious
During the French Revolution it was comunicated the famous law against suspicious.
Read MoreFrom Cartagena to Chocó: the violence of racism.
In what are similar the street of the Arsenal (the fanciest of the Pink Zone in Cartagena) and the miserable borders of the Atrato River in Chocó? At first sight, in anything.
Read MoreSocial Impunity
In a recent research we developed in Dejusticia about people who are used to avoid the lines in several places in Bogota, we found that even if that behaviour changes depending of the place -at school is more common than the airport- the Rule Brakers not only are a lot in the city but also there is few people who protest this directly to them. Even more, what we confirmed is that there exist so many Rule Brakers because nobody criticize them.
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