Corruption as the norm
IN THE SEVENTIES A group of economists argued that, in certain stages of country development, corruption is not only inevitable but is a beneficial disease. It’s a kind of social fever that may be necessary to achieve modernization.
Read MoreSocial division of mourning
ON THE OCCASION OF THE murder of judge Gloria Constanza Gaona the president of Judicial Asonal, Mr Nelson Cantillo, complained this week that, except for the condolences he received from his colleagues in the Judiciary (and one more from the mayor of Medellin) no one from the government or other public or private entity regretted the fact before Asonal.
Read MoreParochial feeling
Earlier this year I wrote a column in which I criticized the national anthems. I said that almost all of them had lost the basic connection they once had with reality and therefore seemed anachronic and even ridiculous. The columnist Daniel Mera Villamizar disagreed with this view and this week answered in these pages.
Read MoreStoicism and discipline in Japan
OF THE MANY terrible images that have circulated on the accumulation of disasters that occurred this week in Japan, there is one that draws my attention: a video shot inside a supermarket during the earthquake, in which employees are seen holding shelves that swing from side to side, ready to collapse and from which bottles, tins, and all sorts of products fall, amid a deafening noise and a shaky floor in which they can hardly balance. How is it possible that these employees do not go running? That they stay calm? That they don’t even shout?
Read MoreEducational apartheid in Bogotá
Education should create cultural capital and encourage social mobility. However, when rich and poor study in separate schools and there is great difference in the quality of their formation, school only serves to perpetuate social hierarchies. Results of a careful study of the case of Bogota.
Read MoreSimulate what we are not
IN THE LABYRINTH OF SOLITUDE, Octavio Paz says that simulation is one of the forms of habitual behavior of Mexicans.
Read MoreTechnology and democracy
When my children were young, a few years ago, we used to have a conversation called “what did not exist when …. ”
Read MoreThe two Spains
This week marks 30 years of the failed military coup of February 23, 1981 in Spain, most known as the coup of 23-F.
Read MoreWho controls lawyers?
This week’s arrest of lawyer Ramon Ballesteros reminded (once again) that lawyers are a key part in the actions of the mafia and the paramilitaries.
Read MoreGeography and the Constitution
COLOMBIA is a country that has been conceived, organized and managed from the mountains.
Read More“Our Aboriginals”: Indigenous or Terrorists?
This time the indigenous did not marched in vane. Still they haven´t achieved from the Government to give them the land promised almost 20 years ago. But they have gained that exasperated elite sectors show their true colors and say with naivety what they think about the subject.
Read MoreInterview to César Rodríguez in El Espectador on Racism in Discotheques
“We wanted to establish a precent against racism”
By: Cecilia Orozco Tascón – Special for El Espectador
César Rodriguez, professor from Los Andes University , and responsible for guiding the group of students that pretended demonstrate the acts of discrimination against afro- descendants in some bars in Bogota talks to El Espectador. The proprietaries from the establishments sanctioned defend themselves and deny being racist.
Read MoreEthics and Judicial Juncture
Since the judicial strike, new judges for the Constitutional Court and the airs of reform it´s important to ask one self what ethical parameters must prevail.
Read MoreBBC World.com Talks about Racial Discrimination in Discotheques in Bogota
In Colombia, many restaurants, stores and businesses have an announcement that reads “we reserve the right for admission”. Some others, even though they don´t have that same sign, they apply the same politic. It´s about a reserve so broad that many clients can be rejected.
Read MoreThe Press Talks about Racial Discrimination in Discotheques in Bogotá: Links of Interest
Dejusticia has tracked the coverage from the press to the case of the afro-descendants that suffered from racial discrimination in bars in the north of Bogota. In attached document you will find a compilation of news published in different media.
Read MoreDejusticia will Participate in Thematic Audience on Racial Discrimination in Colombia before the Interamerican Commission on Human Rights Next Week
Dejusticia, as a member of the Observatory on Racial Discrimination, will participate next week on audience before the Interamerican Commission on Human Rights, regarding racial discrimination in Colombia.
Read MoreThe World Disorder
The recent collapse from Wall Street has produced three types of reactions in the press: that from the neo-liberals that simply keep quiet (it was time); that from the enemies of capitalism, that rub their hands with the expectations that this will be the end of the United States; and that from those that don´t believe this to be the end of capitalism, but think that its survival depends on the strengthening of the State.
Read More“University Research shows Latente Racism in some Bars in Bogotá”: El Tiempo
El Tiempo informed about this situation in May this year. This is the article on the subject.
Read MoreDaniel Samper Pizano Talks about Discrimination in Discotheques
The columnist from the newspaper El Tiempo, Daniel Samper Pizano talks about the discrimination against the afro-descendants that presented a lawsuit because of their rights violated by 3 night clubs in Bogotá. He also urges people not to be tolerant with this type of attitudes and to restrain from going to these places.
Read MoreThe Justice of the Bankers
It´s important that the bankers preoccupy about the problems on the judicial system in Colombia. But that does not means that their visions and solutions are to be accepted, as is shown in the interview on Sunday in El Tiempo. to Luis Carlos Sarmiento.
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