Summer Festival in Caño Cristales
When historians write the chronicle of the Santos Administration, they will say that the agreement with the FARC was his great achievement and the abandonment of the environment his failure.
Read MoreThe Many Faces of Drug Use
We have to insist that no drug user should be treated as a criminal and that the majority is far the dominant stereotype.
Read MoreThe Panama Papers and Collaborative Advocacy
To read this post in English click here.
By now you have likely heard of the Panama Papers. Leaked to the German newspaper Süddeutsche Zeitung by an anonymous source, the Papers include over 11.5 million records from the files of Mossack Fonseca, a Panamanian law firm that helped politicians, drug dealers, athletes, businessmen, and other rich clients hide wealth and evade taxes through offshore shell companies, investment funds, and tax havens.
Read MoreThe Constitution, Democracy and Rights
This is the name of the book that the National University will launch April 28th and that compiles some of the best constitutional law texts written by Juan Jaramillo, our dear friend and Dejusticia and university colleague, who passed away too soon four years ago.
Read MoreLiberty and Order
In Colombia there exists a an old political culture that, trying to avoid tyranny, became negligent with anarchy. This has made more difficult the construction of an efficient state with enough administrative capacity to enforce the law. Let me explain myself.
Read MoreStarving to Death in Colombia
Three weeks ago I wrote that 33 children below the age of five had starved to death this year in Colombia.
Read MoreCoca Corridors: Stories of Cultivators and Narcotraffickers
Until a couple weeks ago, I had not heard of the narco-corridors of Colombia.
Read MoreThe Boys’ Club of Constitutional Law
Our high courts have a very low representation of women and there is no institutional effort to reverse this tendency, which makes the head of the judiciary a space mainly composed of men.
Read MoreThe Digital God
The FBI lost the security battle against Apple, which refused to breach the privacy of a terrorist’s cellphone, but in the digital age everyday new risks emerge.
Read MoreToward Finland’s Educational Model
The Finnish educational model is an ideal system. However for other systems to move close to it, institutional changes do not suffice, material and cultural conditions must be addressed.
I wear a ruana (#YoMePongoLaRuana)
That is what reminds us of the farmers’ protests and the urban campaigns that support them, such as #YoMePongoLaRuana (I wear the ruana) in Twitter.
Read MoreThe peace framework and the Attorney General’s Office of the Internacional Criminal Court
Some weeks ago news was announced of a true bomb. The news was about two private letters- leaked by media – in which the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court addressed the Constitutional Court, with the intention of making some clarifications about its vision of the Legal Framework for Peace. According to media reports, these letters could become an insurmountable obstacle for the process, given that the arguments made by the Prosecutor questioned the international validity of the peace framework and, therefore they could discredit an eventual decision by the Court supporting the framework.
Read MoreThe Attorney General of the International Criminal Court and the decision on the legal peace framework
Are the communications, sent by the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court to the Constitutional Court, really “letter bombs” against the constitutionality of the Legal Framework for Peace?
Read MoreLetter bombs?
Semana magazine used the term “letter bombs” to refer to two communications that Fatou Bensouda, fiscal of the International Criminal Court, sent to the Constitutional Court. The choice of terms is due to the letters’ possible impact on the imminent decision of the regarding the legal peace framework.
Read MoreThe farce of public land
Many individuals divided their land in small segments so that their friends and family can claim them from the government, according to the law.
Read MoreDrugs and hypocrisy of the State
There has been a lot of talk about how problematic the “war against drugs” has resulted. Not only has consumption not been reduced, but it has also generated serious harm, such as the violence related to drug trafficking, which has ended up being worse than the sickness. This has been achieved through disproportionate legislation, which has led to drug trafficking in Colombia carrying a more harsh punishment than torture or rape.
Read MoreGold, rocks and consultations
In the town of Piedras, located in the state of Tolima in Colombia, the future of participatory democracy and the environment is at stake. The first prior consultation related to a mining project (La Colosa) took place in this town. This project would be one of the largest of the country and a star within the national portfolio of Anglo Gold, the gold mining multinational.
Read MoreMinorities, threshold and oposition
Democracy assumes that the majority rules, but democracy also assumes that the political minority will be protected so that it can eventually reach power and, thus alternation can exist.
Read MoreWould you eat an in vitro hamburger?
More tests and funding is required. Specially, in the case of Colombia, a cientific and technological infraestructure is required to do something similar.
Read MoreA disabled society
On a litter. That is how people in a wheel chair must board and leave an airplane when travelling throughout Colombia. I had to see this painful scene in several airports, while traveling with a foreign colleague, whose extraordinary mind and heart are highlighted by his body’s immobile legs.
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