The Coal Industry Has to End if We Want to Meet the Goal of Global Warming
We want climate justice now!
Read MoreColombia and South Africa
I suspect that many of those who consider the victims and justice agreement reached by the FARC and the government unacceptable, due to it supposedly permitting impunity, are also Mandela admirers and the South African transition. This is paradoxical as its contradictory to admire Mandela and consider unacceptable this agreement with the FARC.
Read MoreThe Physical Therapy of Peace
Due to tendinitis in one of my legs from falling off my bike, I had to visit the doctor.
Read MoreLoose Cannon
The whole world thinks the battle is lost. That there were wiretaps in the 60s, in the 90s, last year, and that there will be next year as well. That we are all wiretapped and that there isn’t a commission that could fix the police.
Read MoreTo Die in Detention
This past 5th of December, between 9:15 and 10:20 p.m., a trans person died while she was detained by the Police of the Permanent Justice Unit (UPJ) of Puente Arandoa in Bogota.
Read MoreThe Magic of Words
Names and their meanings define the relationship between social movements and states.
Read MoreThis is How Slavery Works in the 21st Century
The International Labor Organization (ILO) estimates that there are approximately 20.9 million slaves, of which 26 percent are children. This is more enslaved people than during any other point in history.
Read MoreOpaque Justice (II)
The creation of governmental bodies in the judiciary, emerging from the constitutional balance of powers reform, has hardly been transparent, which is worrisome, as the tangible functioning the judiciary highly depends on the quality of those bodies.
Read MoreWriting and Thinking
In a recent op-ed Piedad Bonnett regretfully discusses just how common poor writing is in Colombia.
Read MoreThe Planet in Brackets
Here at the climate change summit in Paris, the future of the planet is in brackets.
Read MoreSteping toes in the healthcare reform
The announced healthcare reforme shows that the Government is up to step on the powerful toes of the responsible of the crisis of the system. We still have to wait and see the details of the law, but starting now, the radical opposition of sectors as the EPS is a sign that the project is going in a good direction.
Read MoreOur debts to Angélica
We still owe Angélica Bello and the victims of the conflict recognition and the warranty of their rights.
Read MoreThe strategy of Colombia before the Interamerican Court of Human Rights in the case of the Palace of Justice: ¿poor or malintentioned?
En my previous entry, I showed, without pretending to be exhaustive, some punctual but huge mistakes and contradictions of the pledge of Colombia before the Interamerican Court of Human Rights in the case of the Palace of Justice. In this entry, as I had said, I will analice the strategy of defense. I again apologize for the extent and the excess of technico-juridical arguments, but I think that this examination is necessary.
Read MoreThey are still disappeared
Colombia sustains before the Interamerican Court of Human Rights that it cannot be condemned for the disappereances of the Palace of Justice, because there are no proofs that show that this 12 people left the Palace alive and that they were disappeared ny a state’s agent. But this thesis is false, both a probatory and at a normative level.
Read MoreWoman can have it all?
Why are there so few women in directive positions? Is it because of the rules of the game that are discriminatory or because of decisions that they make themselves that relegate them to the middle management?
Read MoreArrogant, bur juridically very poor
Few times have I read a document as offensive, in a human sense, as the answer brief of Colombia, elaborated by Rafael Nieto Loaiza, in the case of the Palace of Justice before the Interamerican Court of Human Rights, where the responsibility of the Colombia is judged for the disappearances that happened after the reclaim. And that is why the indignation about that brief of many commentarists, is justified. Indignation that I share.
Read MoreAn offensive defense
The defense of Nieto Loaisa before the Interamerican Court on the case of the Palace of Justice is truly offensive: instead of being a goor juridical representation of the Colombian State, it is an attack to the national justice, and his brief is an offense to the intelligence, the truth and the victims.
Read MorePalace of justice: The best defense is attack?
In this case before the CIDH, the nation decided to disappear the disapeared.
Read MoreCarnival and sex
The campaigns on safe sex during the Carnaval de Barranquilla are an example worth following for the rest of the authorities in the country.
Read MoreMore myths on the consultation with indigenous and afros
The misinformation of the ministers pf Agriculture and of influent journalists such as Isabel Rueda and Felipe Zuleta about what’s going on in the territories of indigenous communities and afros is surprising.
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