El Tiempo’s pro-government stance
In the book “Almost all the truth,” María Isabel Rueda asks Enrique Santos the following: Would you say El Tiempo today has a pro-government stance but is politically asexual?. The interviewee responds, “El Tiempo defends the establishment, make no mistake about that. But it has nothing to do with it being politically asexual. If anything, it is coherent and manfully pro-government. “
Read MoreEducational apartheid
Social life depends, to a large extent, on the achievement of people’s basic expectations: buy a house, get a retirement, educate their children. All these are reasons that people have to live in society and accept its game rules.
Read MoreAbortion and life
IT IS HARD TO ASSEMBLE A serious public policy discussion with people that only obey their religious convictions.
Read MoreFor a serious discussion
I always read with interest Alejandro Gaviria’ op-eds and I share his concern for improving the quality of national public debate, too biased by opinions that, as he says, “confuse experience with militancy, discourse with analysis, and consistency with paranoia. ”
Read MoreConservative anti-elitism
It’s a long list of reasons that help explain the recent electoral defeat of President Obama.
Read MoreThe game of life
IN THE GAME OF LIFE, Daniel Santos sang as follows: “Four doors are open / For those who have no money / The hospital and the jail / The church and the cemetery.”
Read MoreMore about race and independence
IN MY OP-ED last week I spoke of Columbus Day and tried to explain the significance for Latin America of the Spanish conquest and how much we are still tied to the colonial world.
Read MoreRace and independence
This weeks celebration of Columbus Day, just in the Bicentenary year, is an event of great importance, which accumulates all our colonial and republican history on the same date.
Read MoreOverall
Columnists are not only critical but receive criticism in droves.
Read MoreMemory relief
SOMETIMES you get the impression that societies, like people, have their temperament, their personality. Some are lively and spontaneous, others are secretive and impenetrable, some disciplined and obedient and others impulsive and creative.
Read MoreSocial Organizations and Dejusticia Present a Lawsuit against the Election of the Ombudsman
The past 16 of August, the Center for the Study of Law, Justice and Society – Dejusticia- and other organizations from the civil society presented a nullity action against the administrative act by which the Chamber of Representatives elected Mr. Volmar Pérez for the Ombudsman post.
Read MoreWhy Remembering Trujillo´s Massacre?
Why remembering and clearing up the details on so many massacres that have occurred in Colombia as the massacre in Trujillo? Isn’t it a vain exercise of national flagellation that impedes reconciliation and makes harder the building of a better future?
Read MoreThe Return of Turbay
The parliamentary initiative for legalizing the “roscogramas” is similar to that proposed by the Ex-President Turbay for reducing corruption.
Read MoreDiabolical Moral
There was a time in which priests asked people to confess if they had had bad thoughts or bad dreams.
Read MoreSemana cites Dejusticia on its Investigation on the Judicial Administration
In the Municipalities where there are armed actors, the justice administration works just a little or none, concludes an investigation that lights up where is needed exactly a reform to justice.
Read MoreJournalists and Union Leaders : Privileged Dead?
Numbers are alarming: 125 journalists killed in the last 125 years in the country. Equally serious is the number of cases that have ended in a sentence: only 12, and almost always against the one who shoot and not the one who gave the order.
Read MoreA tiger of flesh and bones
It´s very difficult to demonstrate, as pretends the columnist Alfredo Rangel, that the Colombian Government has the real and unequivocalwill to investigate and judge crimes against humanity that are of the competence of the International Criminal Court.
Read MoreThe Science of Religion
It´s been almost two centuries since Auguste Compte said in his Opuscules that society was in a state of transition between the old world, dominated by religion and the militarism, a new world where science and humanism will be the guides of civilization.
Read MoreRodrigo Uprimny in the Editorial of September 3 in El Espectador
The thing about impunity towards the killing of journalists in Colombia, very usual every certain time, was the object of debate during the meeting organized by the Interamerican Society of Press (SIP) and Andiarios, beginning this week in Bogota.
Read MoreJudicial Independence, Verbal Intemperance and Interamerican Court
The last ruling from the Interamerican Court was against Venezuela, but it seems to be written for Colombia due to the reflections about the threat to the judicial independence because of the verbal attacks from the governement againts the decisions from the judges that do not suit its will.
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