The Country of the Future
Witnessing here in Brazil the political upheaval— the image of Lula being interrogated, the preparations for a Sunday march against Dilma and a counter-protest by the PT— I’m reminded of the slogans coined by locals to make sense of this country of extreme grandeur and misery.
Read MoreFor Territorial Peace, Territorial Justice
We are already hearing more elaborate proposals about how the implementation of the agreements with the FARC should work.
Read MoreBogotá Suspicious of Everyone
Everything seems to indicate that since Enrique Peñalosa entered as Bogotá’s mayor, we are all suspect of having committed a crime.
Read MoreColombia’s Exploding Tourist Industry
Tourism in Colombia has grown significantly and seems only to accelerate: in the last decade the number of tourist visa entries have doubled, with an increase of 16.3% in only the last year.
Read More“Why Does TransMilenio Not Work?” (Remastered Version)
The discontent of users is growing: in 2015 the satisfaction dipped to 19% and 89% of riders thought that the service had not improved.
Read MoreRethinking our Political Cartography
Even if one tries, it is difficult to imagine a political division more irrational than the one we have in the Middle Magdalena region and in part explains its precarious governability and its acute problems of violence.
Read MoreThe Other Victims
My father, Jaime García Isaza, died last Tuesday in Medellin, after being run over by a motorcycle on San Juan Street.
Read MoreTwo Democracies
This week in Bogotá and Ibagué, it was clear that the government is split between two different conceptions of democracy.
Read MorePost-Conflict in Colombia: The Promise of Justice
Delivering justice after a war is always a difficult task. The Special Jurisdiction for Peace in Colombia stands out for having been negotiated and not imposed.
Read MoreSmearing Protests: The Case of E24
The E24 Movement has called for a protest and the government has responded with stigmatization. This is not acceptable in a democracy that seeks greater inclusion through peace.
Read MoreVictims, rights and peace
We have to build a vision of the peace process that respects and is sensitive to victims’ rights. But, at the same time, we have to advance toward a vision of victims’ rights, which is sensitive to the demands and possibilities of a peace process.
Read MoreThe Roberts court: one stepforward, several steps back
In reality, there has been an exception to the Roberts-led court,which has tended to disregard vulnerable groups’ rights, while defending the privileges of the powerful.
Read MoreHuman Rights: one step forward, one step back
Government Santos has given human rights the attention that its predecessor had neglected them.
Read MoreA ruling that is a bit sophisticated
A sentence of the Constitutional Court will be useful to stop the ‘advanced’ strategies of land accumulation.
Read MoreA newspaper page is enough…
Last Tuesday, President Santos announced that it would reduce the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights´term in our country, with the argument that Colombia “has advanced sufficiently” not to need any “more United Nations human rights offices”.
Read MoreColombia: World’s champion in the price of medicine?
The Sunday news report written by Juan Gossaín unleashed a heated debate regarding the prices of medications and what the Ministry of Health is doing to regulate them. The temperature increased when Minister Alejandro Gaviria and some journalists tweeted against Gossaín (“bad literature as substitute to bad journalism”, was one of the accusations.)
Read MoreThe criminal populism of the General Inspector
The Inspector General and some leftist populist strands have one thing in common: trying to win plaudits from citizens through attractive-sounding measures, but these are impossible to achieve or are counterproductive.
Read MorePrioritization and the criminal justice system
The discussion on whether the Prosecutor’s Office should focus on investigating certain crimes rather than others is important and difficult. But it does have a reasonable solution.
Read MorePolitical participation and armed conflict
The proposals of political participation of FARC have received harsh criticism. The target has not only been the most controversial and maximalist proposals, such as the call for a constituent assembly or the whole reformation of the state.
Read MoreTo recover the land to die for it?
The more than 100 rulings on land restitution are a step forward, but threats to complainants and related deaths put this process at risk.
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