The Banality of Evil
In a recent interview, Timochenko attempts to change the FARC’s image as a cruel and soulless group.
Read MoreWhy Not a Constitutional Constituent Assembly?
In other op-eds I have explained the enormous risks of a constitutional constituent assembly as a popular vote mechanism for the peace accord.
Read MoreThe Day the Court Heard Atrato
Last week, the members of Constitutional Court Judge Jorge Iván Palacio’s office conducted a judicial inspection of the Atrato River to determine the contamination due to illegal mining in the zone.
Read MoreJudiciary: Time To React!
The judiciary should react to its legitimacy and credibility crisis.
Read MoreThe National Museum of Memory: A Moral Duty
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“This is a permanent process of creating memory. These are the pieces of brick that we brought for the construction of this, our memory This painful clay will be transformed, and we will be strengthened in the unity of our dreams” (Reference to Salón del Nunca Más, Granada, Antioquia)
Read MoreDefending the Ombudsman’s Office
The forced and late resignation of the Ombudsman opens the possibility for president Santos to unleash a virtious cycle: reinforce a far-reaching institution like the ombudsman’s office, regain the prestige of the ombudsman’s post, and improve gender equity at the highest levels of government.
Read MorePiketty and Inequality
Professor Thomas Piketty gave a talk this week in the Universidad Externado. The auditorium was packed and what impressed me most was the attendance of a good part of the country’s economic and political decisionmakers.
Read MoreA World with Hunger
The problem of world hunger is not due to scarcity of food, but rather because of inequality accessing it.
Read MoreLessons of a Resignation
Little comes out of the ex-ombudsman Otálora’s resignation if with it the debate about sexual harrassment ends. If there was something good about the scandal, it was the collective indigation and the visibility that it gave to the mistreament that many workers bear in silence, and the sexual harrasment that many women suffer in offices, universities, and other places.
Read MoreHow Legal Is It to Record Videos of Citizens and Upload Them to the Internet?
The silence of the Pacific Aliance
The Pacific Aliance will be the main commercial bloc in America.
Read MoreProcuring the revocation
Counteracting the Law and common sense, the Ombudsman office pretends that the mayors that are threatened from revocation do not stand up for their government nor oppose to those who pretend to shorten their period.
Read MoreA visa for another country
I read in El Tiempo that the Colombian passport “opens increasingly more doors”, meanwhile I gather a bunch of documents required by European countries to grant us a visa. This is the third Schengen visa that I apply for in six months, because each one is useful for the short period of a trip.
Read MoreThe political participacion of former members of FARC: A thorny road, but viable
Otorgar, restringir o condicionar el ejercicio de derechos políticos a los ex guerrilleros será parte obligatoria de la transición hacia la vida civil una vez se produzcan los acuerdos de paz. Análisis jurídico, político e histórico. Balas por votos “Todos los procesos de paz exitosos en el mundo llevan a una transformación de los grupos…
Read MoreConsumers of all countries, united!
The collapse of the factory, which caused the death of hundreds of workers in Bangladesh rises transcendental questions, as César Rodríguez showed in his last Op-Ed.
Read MoreThe Superior Council of the Judiciary: an opportunity for a bad design of
The operation of all justice depends on this body, which however lacks- almost on purpose – of democratic independence, technical capacity and the necessary representativeness.
Read MoreMade in Bangladesh
If you believe the recent death of more than one thousand seamstresses in Bangladesh is a foreign issue, look at the label of your pants.
Read MoreA bittersweet anniversary
Today is the seven-year anniversary of the right to abortion in Colombia. A right in full compliance and, therefore the state has the obligation to guarantee the provision of this service.
Read MoreDisciplinary or… ideological surveillance ?
The disciplinary power exists to sanction a civil servant abusing power or not meeting his functions.
Read MoreConflicts in the State: between clashes and counterbalances
Prosecutor versus Inspector General, Mayor versus President, Court versus Court: the constant clashes between powers are worrisome for public opinion, but they are not always negative . A perceptive analysis about when these conflicts are healthy and when they are harmful.
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