Opaque Justice
The balance of powers constitutional reform substituted the discredited Judiciary Superior Council (Consejo Superior de la Judicatura) with a new Judicial Government Council (Consejo de Gobierno Judicial, CGJ), among other things, to achieve greater transparency in the judiciary. However, the medicine could result worse than the disease due to the opaque and questionable manner that the CGJ is being integrated.
Read MoreThe Judiciary’s Foxes
There’s a German saying that goes: “when foxes preach, be careful with your geese.”
Read MoreFrog’s Luck
Only a month from the climate change global summit in Paris, humanity acts as the proverbial frog in the pot: floating in water that slowly warms, without realizing that we are almost at the boiling point.
Read MoreDejusticia: a decade thinking about a just peace
In Colombia, the last ten years have been dramatic in terms of peace and rights. The country has faced an enormous flux of demobilized ex-combatants, has seen a dynamic movement of victims grow, and to account for all of that, has witnessed the creation and development of countless official laws and institutions in charge of hundreds of proceedings for victims and ex-combatants.
Read MoreThe Magical Reality of Egypt
But I am not writing to expose the gravity of enforced disappearance, as it is a well-documented crime. Instead, I am going to shed light on how reality meets fantasy in Egypt, where the very forces of security and justice, are the gravest threat to Egyptians’ security and justice.
Read MoreSolicitor General: Are You Quashing Atheist Communism?
The solicitor general wants to politically destroy the most important and valuable senator from the left in Colombia.
Read MoreConfusion in the ICC
With Georgia under investigation and Colombia working hand by hand with the ICC towards a peace agreement with guerrillas, the complementarity of the Rome Statue system seems sufficient, but the whole picture is more complicated.
Read MoreDisappeared, War, and Peace
In my last op-ed I invited readers to imagine peace as an antidote to our perrenial war.
Read MoreDemocracy without the State
This Sunday’s regional elections will probably be the most peaceful of the last four decades. But it is possible, according to experts, that they will be the most corrupt of recent times.
Read MoreDisappeared
Among the infamies of our internal conflict, one of the greatest, due to it being the most hidden, is the forced disappearance of thousands of people: the students and activists evaporated at the hands of state intelligence bodies under the Security Statute 35 years ago, the “false positives” of the army a few years ago, the social and rural leaders removed by the paramilitaries in the nineties, the soldiers kidnapped by the FARC that never reappeared. All united by uncertain stops and the suffering of families that continue to search for them.
Read MoreClimate change’s tsunami
If you’re not terrified by what happened in the summit on climate change in Doha the reason is you’re not paying attention. “Which summit, where?” – you may be probably wondering -. “What happened?”
Read MoreDejusticia’s comments to the Constitutional Reform to the Military Jurisdiction
Notes of public interest by Dejusticia regarding the constitutional reform to the military criminal justice jurisdiction, which constitute an academic explanation to this issue.
Read MoreEgalitarina marriage
The only real reason to the rejection to the egalitarian marriage is the repulsion to homosexuality. All the other arguments are only week shells that hide this aversion.
Read MoreA military jurisdiction, broaden de facto
Those who have opposed ourselves to the reform that expands the military jurisdiction are told that we are wrong: that that broadening doesn’t exist.
Read MoreGeneral Prosecuter by nock out
It must be recognized: in Congress, the old politics of Prosecuter Ordóñez won by nock out to the new one of the social networks, independent opinion and civil organizations.
Read MoreThe non reasons for the extended the military jurisdiction (III)
I think I have shown in the last two columns that neither the technical justifications (absence of military knowledge of ordinary judges) nor the normative ones (absence of clarity on the rules that regulate the military combat) are acceptable to extend the military jurisdiction.
Read MoreChronicle of an announced reelection
The reelection of the Ombudsman was obvious. But hopefully in his second period he will devote himself to observe the jurisprudence and not his believes.
Read MoreAnd now, taxes to the retirement’s pensions?
When Minister Cárdenas proposes to tax the retirement’s pensions, ones heart shrinks. Imagine the neverending lines of older people, charging their monthly installment in the unfortunate last days of their lifes. And, to crown it all, they would now be forced to pay taxes for what their saved with the swet of their brows.
However, that’s not the case. The proposal goes in another way: it is about charging 5% over pensions starting at 10 millions pesos a month. The intention is to invert the actual decline of the pensional system, where there are, not only in little opportunities, great differences between what is contributed as a worker and what is received as a retiree.
Read MoreIn defense of silence
Nothing less popular in a noisy country than silence. Nothing more scarce in the digital world that stillness. It is impossible to concentrate like that, to think. And that’s how we do.
Read MoreLegal interceptions: more questions than answers
The “interceptions syndrome” arouses suspiciousness before a recent and of difficult application Decrete: technically, it isn’t easy to reconcile the obligation of investigating the guilty with the rights to privacy, the habeas data and the freedom of expresion.
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