The Decree Law of Indigenous People’s Reparations
A new law regarding reparations and restitution of territorial rights gives fresh air to the rights of Colombian indigenous peoples.
Read MorePoliticians and beauty queens that don’t read
Many years ago I have not seen a beauty pageant. I hate the questions jurors ask the candidates on the coronation day: What is your favorite book?, If you could talk to the Pope, what would you ask for?, How do you world peace could be obtained?, and things like that.
Read MoreHigh class ladies
Four ladies of the high society in Cali, sitting in a luxurious terrace adorned with vases, cushions, palm trees, beautiful views, and, in the background, two black employees, uniformed, carrying silver trays and placed on the side to garnish the stage for a photo on top of which reads: “The most powerful women of the Cauca Valley in the formidable Hollywood mansion of Sonia Zarzur in the Beverly Hills of Cali.”
Read MoreProtests
In this end of the year the protagonists of democratic life in the country have been the students with their protests.
Read MoreA pact with nature
Colombians have an ambivalent attitude towards nature.
Read MoreSantos and drug legalization
If you want to reset the native pain caused by the failure of the Colombia selection in its match against Argentina, read the news about the country that appears in international press.
Read MoreUniversity and social equality
In the eighteenth century the fate of people depended on their parents: the children of peasant farmers were ineluctably peasant, as well as those of craftsmen were craftsmen and those of nobles were nobles.
Read MoreOn moral and politics
There are three candidates from the left vying for the presidency of France (2012-2017): François Hollande from the Socialist Party (PS), a favorite to defeat Nicolas Sarkozy, Jean-Luc Melanchon from the Left Front, and Philippe Poutou from the New Anticapitalist Party (NPA). I will refer only to the latter.
Read MoreUpside down colonization
“The republic only exists in the cities, at most in big towns and there it’s stuck. Further down, not even the smell.”
Read MoreThe informal rules of corruption
There are so many corruption scandals in Colombia, one no longer feels tranquility when misdeeds are discovered but rather feels concern.
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.
Read MoreKouchner and Rama Yade
HENRY KISSINGER said that diplomacy was the art of ambiguity, with what gave count -in a ambiguous manner- of the existing gap between what the world of the international relations does and says. But as everything here, there are also exceptions, it means, diplomatics that say what they think with frankness and straight out.
Read MoreThe End of the Economic Orthodoxy
The actual economic crisis is making rethink those who believed had the revealed truth on the role of the State in the market
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