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 MoreVictims Statute: observations to the law project 157 of 2007
This document pretends to develop a proposal to include the gender perspective in the Victims Statute that is now in the Congress. The document argues from the practical and normative point of view why is it necessary and fundamental to include differential perspectives in the law project, in particular the gender perspective.
Read MoreThe Financial Market, a Suicidal Institution?
As some people, there exists institutions that are “suicidal”, according to the suggestive expression of the philosopher Garzón Valdés. One of those institutions is the market, or at least, the financial market. Its suicidal tendency derives from the fact that if it´s abandoned to its own dynamic, without any ethical control or regulation, then the market tends to the auto´destruction.
Read MoreIt´s Alive
Society must stop treating the forced missing people as victims of a second category.
Read MoreBattle Cities
The cities, as the people, have their own temperament. Some are disciplined, kind and calmed, while others are impulsive, unpredictable and spoiled. It´s not easy to identify such a character, but any tourist knows is not the same to be in Stockholm than in Rome or Barranquilla and that behind geography and buildings, their is something incorporeal and own that identify and determines them.
Read MoreHRW: Yanquis of shit also?
Kicked out. Like that were thrown from Venezuela osé Miguel Vivanco and Daniel Wilkinson representatives from Human Rights Watch (HRW). All because of telling the truth to the Hugo Chavez government in a press conference in which was presented a report on the human rights situation in that Country.
Read MoreHoodeds
Last year we were listening t a conference from a french professor in the Universidad Nacional when we suddenly saw by the windows of the auditorium some hooded persons that exhorted against Uribe and threw explosive potatoes. The french professor suspended his explanation and stood up from his chair.
Read MoreEnough with Guerrilla´s Violence
How come the Guerrilla leaders cannot see the disastrous results that have produced the armed conflict which has been the factor for paramilitary groups, the disappearance of the peasants movement, the weakening of the union leaders movement, the agricultural policy, and the daily terror of these last decades?
Read MorePress Release: Dejusticia, Fedevivienda and other citizens present a Lawsuit for the right to live in a House with Dignified Conditions
Dejusticia, Housing Federation (Fedevivienda) and other citizens present a lawsuit against two laws that regulate Social Interest Houses for violating the rights of people for living in a deign house, the right to equality, public space, and the duty of the State to protect the most vulnerable people and respect the decentralization principle.
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?
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