Marriage Equality or Legal “Apartheid”?
The Constitutional Court should define if in Colombia there is marriage equality, which is, if same-sex couples have the same right to marry as heterosexual couples; or if they can only aspire to formalize their union and their family with a different contract, a type of “solemn union.”
Read MorePutting Aside Fury
Colombia seems to be in a crucial moment in its history; a moment where anything is possible; from the best to the worst.
Read MoreEndless Lawsuits
If the media, the Comptroller’s Office, and citizens want to avoid the next plundering of public finances, they should concentrate on the endless lawsuits that multinational announce against the state based on FTAs.
Read MoreThe Generation without Conflict
The 23rd of March passed without notice. It has been tumultuous weeks where not only we must avoid the tedium of uncertainty, but above all those of my generation.
Read MoreA Referendum of Hate
A referendum against equality breaks with the Constitution’s basic structure and seeks to collectively humiliate lesbian, gay, bisexual, and trans people.
Read MoreThe State Created a Vicious Cycle for Coca Producing Communities
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States made a mistake with coca producing communities, as they not only incentivized an illegal market that turned them into part of a criminal network, but also never addressed the causes of the increase of drug trafficking in rural areas, and responded with simplistic solutions: bullets or eradication.
Read MoreCruyff and the Argentine Dictatorship
History has odd coincidences.
Read MoreThe Week of Penance
In Holy Week, people would confess.
Read MoreThe Secret of Peace
They promised us that today, March 23rd, the agreement to end the conflict between the government and the FARC would be signed, but it did not happen this way.
Read MoreMining vs. Restitution
When land restitution conflicts with the country’s mining policy, it is necessary to make decisions that solve these tensions, prioritizing victims’ fundamental rights.
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.
Read MoreUruguay: the conspiracy of the reasonable people
In his poem “Los Conjurados (The Conspirators),” Borges pays homage to the birth of the Confederation of Switzerland. The poem says that in 1.291 “in the center of Europe, people were conspiring,” because “men of different lineages” made “the strange resolution of being reasonable”.
Read MoreAn eye on the military
Simultaneously to the negotiations in Havana, several reforms are taking place. These reforms aim at granting the military a series of very worrisome prerogatives for a post-conflict context.
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