Bridges and land
When President Lleras Restrepo ordered the construction of the footbridge on 26th Street with the National University to prevent students were hit by cars, many students refused to use it with the argument that it had been built by a government that exploited the working class. There is some of that blind and intransigent opposition in the attitude that senators Jorge Robledo and Ivan Cepeda, from the “Democratic Pole”, have adopted against the policy of land restitution conducted by the present Government.
Read MoreSpokesmen for Antioquia
Part of the Antioquia elite is unhappy with the government of Santos.
Read MoreNostalgia of slow time
I get up in the morning and the first thing I do is turn on the computer, check my email, and read the headlines of national and international press.
Read MoreThe president and the peasants
Juan Manuel Santos is not the first Colombian president who wants to modernize the country through land restitution to peasants.
Read MoreThe three features of democratic justice
On Wednesday this week, at Universidad de los Andes, an academic event was held to celebrate the tenth anniversary of the publication of the Kaleidoscope of the justices in Colombia.
Read MoreThe country of doctors
A friend from another country comes to have lunch at my house.
Read MoreOur haunted reality
Jorge Elias Gonzalez, the famous shaman hired to stop the rain in Bogota, said that before acting he prays for a few minutes and asks the “god father” to give him power to divert the clouds.
Read MoreNo passing in double line?
Travelling on Colombian roads has ceased to be a pleasant experience.
Read MoreThe evils of Caldas
Everywhere politicians promise things they do not comply with.
Read MoreNonsense and dogma
In the pile of books I can not read due to lack of time and which I build throughout the year hoping to remove it on vacations, I met with a Dictionary of silliness (Dictionnaire de la bêtise), written by Guy Bechtel and Jean-Claude Carrière (1991). Through more than 6 000 citations, this book gives a good picture of wrong thought, crazy, or that which has simply been defeated throughout history.
Read MoreAbout politics history
During holidays, I was reading texts about latinamerican politics history. I am not going to use this column, dear reader, for developing a synthesis of what I read, neither to write an essay about democracy in Latin America. What I am going to do is to show the impressions those texts left me about our own political regime.
Read MoreHypocracy and Reelection
Adjusting himself to the prototype of a Cynical, Uribe pretends us to believe that reelection is not with him; are the people who are claiming his permanence in the power.
Read MoreTragic Wars
Conflicts and tragedies have caused enormous suffer to humanity. But more terrible than that, have been conflicts that are assumed as tragedies, as natural events or supernatural that no one can resist. Those are the total wars, the holy wars, the wars where fighters are ready to die before negotiating with the enemy. The conflict between Israel and Hamas has a lot more than that.
Read MoreI Dream with a New Policy Against Drugs
The custom is to start the year expressing some wishes and commitments. I confess that since long time ago, one of my dreams is that the world see sense and leave that nightmare that is the war against drugs.
Read MorePocket Rules
Douglass North, Nobel Prize in Economy, sustained some time before that the poor economical development of Latin America, in comparison with that of the United States, can be explained, in its major part, by the way how, since five centuries ago people and institutions conceive laws in this continent.
Read MoreRecommended document: a comprehensive plan for the protection of victims and witnesses from serious human rights violations and breaches of international humanitarian law (differential gender approach).
This document presents proposals from civil society organizations to facilitate the implementation of the Sentence T-496/08 of the Constitutional Court.
Read MoreThe Mothers of Belem
The biblic narration made by Mathew the Evangelist is concise: to the noise made by the magicians about the birth of the King of Jews, the jealous of Herodes appeared who saw his kingdom weaken. He used the magicians to seek for the child in Belem, “so I can also go and adore him”, but the magicians never came back to Herodes, which made him furious and ordered one of the most sadly remembered murders of the history. The murder of innocent two year old children in Belem and it’s surroundings.
Read MoreThe Victory of Turbay Ayala
“Not everyone had the luck to have 20 years in May in 1968 in Paris”, wrote the french intellectual Régis Debray.
Read MoreColombia Vs. Rest of the World
Appointing Perea as ambassador in South Africa because the World Cup will be hosted there, is just an example of the myopia of the colombian foreign policy.
Read MoreVictims and Christmas
An impacting Christmas Card, promoted by Claudia Lopez, Antanas mockus and Rudolf Hommes, invites us to reflect and act, so in Colombia there won’t be more false positives, which means, there won’t be more assasinates executed by agents of the Public Force. The Letter is accompanied by a moving picture, where the mothers of Soacha show portraits or memories of the sons they lost due to the army.
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