Colombia’s Environmental Near-sightedness and Clumsiness in ECLAC
In contrast to the majority of countries that want a treaty that guarantees the right to the free access to information in Latin America, Colombia has done everything in its power to make the instrument simply a declaraton of principles without teeth.
Read MoreThose without Rights
The prison population has had its political rights and liberty curtailed legally, but the rest of its rights are illegally violated.
Read MoreEconomic Thinking, Economists’ Education and Human Rights
Economic thinking and education must have an approach that protects what really matters: human rights
Read MoreThe Palace and the Bogotazo
The taking and re-taking of the Palace of Justice was not only were atrocious and painful events; they were also moral and institutional ruptures that generated a vicious cycle of violence, from which we are still not free.
Read MoreViolentologists
In 1987 the administration of President Barco hired a group of academics from the National University in order to do a study on the causes of violence in Colombia.
Read MoreThe Injustice of Beef
“To eat a big chunk of beef is one of the most efficient forms to validate and take advantage of an unjust world,” judged recently writer Martín Caparrós in one of the best op-eds I have read in years.
Read MoreTo Grow!
Urban agriculture not only provides healthful food, but it also helps to ameliorate food insecurity and build environmental and consumer consciousness.
Read MoreJudicial Election Goes Unnoticed
The entire year what was most discussed in my country was the famous “Balance of Powers Reform.” However, its implementation process goes unnoticed, likely because we are a country of short memory.
Read MoreLeonidas or On Santanderean Dignity
I have never seen such a happy loser.
Read MoreWhy do Women Bear the Costs of Drug Policy?
There is nothing more erratic than a policy focused on persecuting the easily exchangeable parts of the drug trafficking market.
Read MoreThe new colombian nationalism
One of the things I’ve always loved from Colombia is the low intensity of its nationalism. In other countries, such as Argentina and Mèxico, the nationalism goes so deep that it is visible in any cultural manifestation and it has been constantly used as an instrument of political mobilization, with high components of dogmatism and not fes cases of persecution of dissidence, often called “stateless”. In Colombia, instead, the belonging to the nation has nat traditionally generated such an acute feeling.
Read MoreRojas Operative
It is already hard to watch Operación E. in Spain. Only a few theaters are still showing, late at night, the movie based in the story of José Crisanto, the peasant who took care of the son of Clara Rojas, born in the middle of her kidnapp in the jungle, for even months.
Read MoreThe right to laziness
That’s how the french socialist Paul Lafargue called an ironic and provocative essay published in 1880, in wich he opposes te fervor for work that both the right and left wings demonstrated in his time.
Read MoreModerated military and radical cattle dealers?
Years ago, Guillermo O’Donnel and Phillippe Schmitter wrote an interesting book on democratic transitions. The argument is that transitions are moments of great uncertainty, in wich the decisions of political actors are definitive.
Read MoreOn the mysteries of life
The recent decision of the ICHR on fertilization in vitro in Costa Rica will give many to say in Colombia.
Read MoreRafael Nieto and the Santo Domingo case
La rabia de Rafael Nieto Loaiza contra la reciente decisión de la Corte Interamericana de Derechos Humanos (CIDH), que condenó a Colombia por un bombardeo de la Fuerza Área Colombiana (FAC) en donde murieron 17 personas, es comprensible. Al fin y al cabo, Nieto representó a Colombia ante la CIDH y no sólo perdió el…
Read MoreCouches for sale
Once again in Colombia we are repeating the attitude of the person who’s told that his wife is cheating on him with his best friend in the couch of the living room and, to face this, he sells the couch.
Read MoreDeaf’s dialogue
The debate on the miner locomotive seams like a dialogue of deaf. But not because some (the Government and the oil and miner companies) ignore the others (critics that ask the rails for the locomotive), but because these and the others are equally indiferente to the evidence of the unsustainability of a country, a planent, riding such a train.
Read MoreColombia, the Vatican and Human Rights
If the posture of the Holy See is so clare on abortion and equalitarian mariage, why do these topics remain in the bilateral agenda with Colombia?
Read MorePunitive addiction
In Latin America it is legally worst to traffic cannabis or cocaine with the purpose of being sold to someone who wants to consume it, than to rape a women or kill someone voluntarily.
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