Contrasting Violences
One of the most painful developments in Venezuela in the last 25 years is the alarming increase in intentional homicides.
Read MoreThe Lost Future
Last Tuesday, a day before the government sells Isagén, President Obama in his last State of the Union Address to Congress, said the following:
Read MoreExpiatory Files
Almost everyone knows philosopher Jorge Santayana’s aphorism: those that ignore history are condemned to repeat the past.
Read MoreGraffiti’s (Momentary) Victory
Perhaps without meaning to, the Mayor Peñalosa’s administration gave an unexpected victory to Bogota’s graffiti.
Read MoreHatred towards Taxes
To oppose tax increases is easy and popular. But structural tax reform, with emphasis in correcting existing inequalities, is urgently necessary.
Read MoreSettling the Historic Debt for Slavery
The discussion about reparations and the historical debt owed to people of African descent is an interesting and sensible discussion. Although many do not believe it, it is important to heal scars.
Read MoreThe Value of Analogies
Some readers, like the op-ed writer Daniel Mera, attacked my recent op-ed about South Africa and Colombia, in which I argued that it is contradictory to admire Mandela and the South African transition and consider unacceptable the agreement about justice and victims between the FARC and the government.
Read MoreControversial Rights
Human rights advocacy continues to be an issue that awakens intense passions.
Read MoreThe Prodigal Son
An old university colleague writes in a newspaper and sends us his op-eds weekly to a group of his old classmates.
Read MoreThe Businessmen of the Dictatorship Is the Weakest Point of Justice in Argentina
Evil, that condition that doesn’t usually have an adjective, has been given one in South America once the atrocities of the Argentine military dictatorship were uncovered.
Read MoreRegarding the Legal Framework for Peace: how much should one judge?
The debate between the public prosecutor and the attorney general illustrates two antagonistic positions regarding the selection criteria that should establish regulations for a statutory law to define the concrete application of transitional justice once a peace agreement has been signed.
Read MoreElectoral organization and democracy
Democratic strengthening in our countries requires an independent electoral organization with technical capacity that can guarantee transparency and legitimacy of elections.
Read MorePlagiarism in the Congress and the Lleras 3.0 Law
If Congress approves the Lleras 3.0 Law, which the Government plans to pass, the first ones to go to jail would be the same members of Congress, because many of their bills are plagiarism from experts’ studies, foreign legislations and even Internet websites.
Read MoreA defense of the Peace Framework
Last year Congress passed the constitutional reform known as Legal Framework for Peace. This year, in the light of the dialogues in Havana, the Constitutional Court will have to define whether the possibility to drop, in some cases, research and legal sanction of crimes committed within the armed conflict, as the reform contemplated, implies or not a substitution of the Constitution of 1991.
Read MoreRites, forms and substance
¿How to achieve an adequate equilibrium between the form and substance of religious, social or legal rites?
Read MoreJustice and sluts
Women sexually assaulted are not guilty for the violence committed against them, instead it is their attacker.
Read MoreBarranquilla, white porcelain
A fact and case makes you think about racial discrimination in Barranquilla, now that the city turns 200 years.
Read MoreThe Court’s gift to clientelism
How the Constitutional Court did not help to the transparency in the election of its new member.
Read MoreEgalitarian marriage and pluralism
An enormous advance for equality and pluralism would be for the Congress to approve egalitarian marriage, this is, broadening to same- sex couples the possibility of getting married, which we, as heterosexual couples, already have.
Read MoreThere is no free lunch
Some weeks ago the Inter-American Court of Human Rights held a meeting in Medellin following an invitation from the Colombian government. It was not a gratuitous invitation.
The government created an opportunity to send two messages to the court regarding how it expects this body to issue rulings about cases related to our country in the future.
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