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 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.
Read MoreThe political balance of the reform to the OAS system of human rights
“Despite almost two years of reflection and discussion, countries in the region arrived with no agreement to the General Assembly of the OAS called to define the future of the Inter American Commission on Human Rights(IACHR).” This was how different media outlets headed their coverage of the marathon meeting of chancellors organized during March 22nd in Washington D.C.
Read MoreLaw, love and politics in egalitarian marriage
While same-sex marraige is prevailing in the United States, the legislation on the topic is staggering in the Colombian Congress.
Read MoreIs God secular
It seems natural that does of us who don’t believe in gods or are not particularly religious support secularism, this is, the principle according to which the colombian State should be separated of religions and be neutral in this field.
Read MoreThe boicot to Los Tres Caínes and the independence of the media
The strategy that intends that advertisers withdraw their advertising cannot be seen as a threat to the independence of the media.
Read MoreEngines and rural poverty
Government is betting on mining in the countryside. However, is this the best way of improving the life quality of its inhabitants?
Read MoreThe power of the jesuits
The arrival of the jesuit Jorge Bergoglio to the head of the Catholic Church has put the company of jesus on the spotlight. Some interpret this as the high point of the influence of the jesuits: the incarnation in the white pope of the power that already exercised the black pope, the world superior of the power of the Company.
Read MoreWhat is the current state of the land restitution process?
It is about time to make a balance of the land restitution process, which recognizes the rights of victims that have been subject of land dispossession. There are important advances, although these are taking place at a slow rate. There are four obstacles that should be removed as soon as possible.
Read MoreIs the pope important to the catholics?
The questions seems stupid, since the designation of a new pope or his visit to any place is always a big event, even when it is in countries of a small catholic population. How could then be the pope secondary to the catholics if he is a notable character even for those that are not catholics?
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