Let’s Discuss Judicial Independence
There are many reports regarding the attacks against judicial independence in the region. But one difficulty that presents itself in discussions on this topic is that everything is lumped into the topic, limiting the analysis about the vulnerabilties that each country has, but also the possibility of debating these seriously.
Read MoreOmbudsman Be Decent: Quit
There is enough evidence and arguments for Jorge Armando Otálora to resign from his post as ombudsman. But for that one needs dignity.
Read More#OtáloraQuit?
Dejusticia researchers explain why the Ombudsman should resign from his post.
Read MoreCan Separate Ever Be Equal?
What then is the virtue of challenging separation if the treatment received is equal?
Read MoreSantos Plebiscite or Popular Consultation for Peace?
Is the popular vote mechanism for the peace accord approved by Congress a plebiscite on Santos, that is, a plebiscite of support or rejection of President Santos?
Read MoreThe Mutations of Peace
The next indispensable step in the peace process is the definition of concentration zones.
Read MoreThe Modern Tyrant’s Manual
Tyranny is not what it used to be.
Read MoreInequality in Transportation
Transmilenio, the rapid bus transit system of Bogotá, has transformed transportation for almost everyone, but these changes have been more important for the middle class than for low-income folks.
Read MoreChildren of Equality
Last November, the Constitutional Court ruled on a case that justly and silently revolutionized the protections for the families of same-sex couples.
Read MoreU.S. Gun Control Policy Is Not Only Domestic
The gun control debate in the U.S. fails to take into account the transnational effects of its gun policies through illicit firearms trafficking.
Read MoreThe judge and Firavitova’s widow
I was disciple of Alberto Rojas. A disciple was how the new judge of the Constitutional Court called those who attended his classes of procedural law. “You know who my reflectors are?” asked Rojas during the mendacious radio interview in which he denied the support of Zulema Jattin. “My disciples: I have nothing else.”
Read MoreThe peace framework and the importance of its controversy
The public debate regarding how to deal with the consequences of the armed conflict and the best ways of overcoming it and not living it again, is perhaps one of the most important discussions that should take place in the country. The negotiation table at Havana and the possible agreements that could be achieved have awakened, therefore, an important and necessary debate. The recently approved constitutional reform known as the legal framework for the peace has also gained attention.
Read MoreAn unfortunate occupation
The installation of Alberto Rojas as judge of the Constitutional Court, despite the journalistic claim that he might have appropriated the compensation of a widow due to the death of her husband, is unfortunate for the country, for the Court, for the Government, and especially for Rojas himself, whose legitimacy remains at stake.
Read MoreThe right to charge water
Some days ago a video re-emerged in which the President of Nestlé says that water is not a right, but must be privatized.
Read MoreThe locomotive without tracks
The announcement finally became a reality: the mining locomotive was left without its last tracks, due to the Government’s incapacity to impulse a new mining code in replacement of the one that wasn´t approved by the Constitutional Court in 2011.
Read MoreEgalitarian marriage after June 20th?
Congress definitely did not approve egalitarian marriage, this is, it did not extend to same-sex couples the right to get married that, us, heterosexual couples currently have. But it did not approve another kind of contract allowing same-sex couples to solemnize their family union. Therefore the question about what is going to happen since June 20th, given that the Constitutional Court ordered as consequence to a lawsuit we presented, along with several organizations, against the exclusively heterosexual definition of marriage in the civil Colombian law, and pointed out the following in the resolution: “If Congress has not issued the corresponding legislation by June 20th, same-sex couples can go before the competent notary or judge and formalize and solemnize their contractual link”.
Read MorePhantoms of the XVI century in the Senate
The discussions in the Senate are not far from the controversies of the conquest epoch.
Read MoreJurists, historians and the Constitution
Jurists are usually bad historians. But historians are usually jurists when they establish the meaning of a norm using historic methods.
Read MoreThe new face of the Constitutional Court
Last week the Senate elected, with a comfortable and announced majority, the lawyer Alberto Rojas as magistrate of the Constitutional Court for an eight-year period, in other words, until the beginning of 2021. With 61 votes, Rojas defeated the expert in criminal law María Lucía Zamora (who obtained 19 votes) and Alejandro Linares (supported by seven senators).
Read MoreOur weather injustice
Yesterday, World Earth Day, we listened again about data that we prefer to forget during the rest of the year. If we keep consuming and contaminating as we are right now, the planet’s weather can increase four degrees in the next three decades, which can put at risk of extinction half of the species.
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