The sin of ingratitude
Ingrid Betancourt’s intention to sue the State produced an avalanche of reactions against her.
Read MoreThe politically correct language
In my op-ed last week I said it was absurd that the World Cup referees saw less well than the match viewers.
Read MoreOne-eyed referees
Suppose your son is playing the final of an intercollegiate soccer championship and when everything is ready to get started you find out the referee is missing an eye. How would you react?
Read MoreIllusions memorial
Every four years, after the presidential elections, we Colombians participate in a sort of collective rite where hope is renewed.
Read MoreA barracks and a convent
SIMON BOLIVAR is attributed the following sentence: “Ecuador is a convent, Colombia is a university, and Venezuela is a barracks.” Now that we are in the Bicentennial celebration and on the eve of the election of a new president, perhaps it is worth wondering the value of the Liberator’s phrase.
Read MoreErasers and memory pills
Last Tuesday, the Third Specialized Judge of Bogota was ready to read the condemnatory sentence against Colonel Plazas …
Read MoreWorse than hell
THE HOPE OF LIFE IN COLOMBIA is 75 years. This means that a citizen can participate in 14 presidential elections over its existence.
Read MoreThe devil doing wafers
A GOOD way to end with a reasonable rule is to require its compliance relentlessly, even in the most absurd situations.
Read MoreGovernments and judicial independence
IN ENGLAND, BEHIND the humblest of judges is always the powerful British Navy.
Read MoreAtheism and evil
IN COLOMBIA many people believe that atheists are people who are closer to evil than what believers are.
Read MoreNetherland Radio Interviews Camilo Sánchez on the ICC
The prosecutor from the International Criminal Court, Luis Moreno Ocampo, arrives today to Bogotá. He is searching for the nexus between the political elite and the chief paramilitaries that have committed crimes against humanity, who after negotiating with the government penalties no greater than 8 years in exchange to confessing and repairing the victims, were extradited to the United States where they are being convicted for drug trafficking.
Read MoreDefending Who?
In studies about justice, usually there is made a differentiation between the most visible justice – which is the judicial cases of major impact as parapolitics – and the routine justice, that decides over the judicial cases of the common people such as robberies and divorces.
Read MoreProcurator to the Constitutional Court Asks for Health System Intervention
For considering that in the country there is a continuous violation of the right to health of the colombian citizens, Edgardo Maya recomends to impose a “declaration of emergency”.
Read MoreCheckmate, International Humanitarian Law
After so many ferocious acts from the FARC as the recent bomb in Ituango, the abuse of the use of the Red Cross sign in the ´Check operation´ can be seen as a minor and excusable fact, that won’t deserve any more comments on the matter. Over all if is taken into account that the operative achieved without gunfire, obtained the liberation of the kidnapped that stayed for years under FARC control in atrocious conditions.
Read MoreWe Reserve Admission Rights
We all have seen the odious signboard at the entrance of restaurants, bars, discotheques and public establishments of all the country. “We reserve the admission right”, reads the announcement that puts our luck in the arbitrary hands of the turn doorman.
Read MoreRuling Confirms Discrimination in Discotheques
The route for slavery
Six afro-Colombians presented a lawsuit against 3 public establishments that impeded their entrance, according to them, because of their skin color.
Dream and Reality in Pekin
In Shakespeare´s Tempest, Miranda says the following: “O, wonder!/
How many goodly creatures are there here!/
How beauteous mankind is!/ O brave new world,
That has such people in’t!/”
Those Who Wear Tennis Shoes Do Not Enter
In many bars only those that can demonstrate that are identified with certain mark of clothes, shoes, accessories, and own gestures characteristic to a social class can pass the entrance examination.
Read MoreFive Million Dollars against the Reelection
The proposal is simple: pay five million dollars to the president so he abandons office when the presidential time is over.
Read MoreThe Judicial Reform: inopportune and opportunist
The proposal for the Judicial Reform announced by the government is inopportune for the colombian society. On the hand is functionally opportune for the government as it generates a cloak of doubt over the impartiality of the judicial investigations over “parapolítica” which has affected essentially members near to the president.
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