The False Beliefs about False Victims
The processes of land restitution are complex and what seems like a false complaint could actually be a typical case of displacement included in the Victims Law.
Read MoreBogotá: The Capital of Sexual Diversity
Some accuse the left of all the evils of Bogotá and harken back to the golden age of Peñalosa as the paradise to which we should return.
Read MoreThe Memory of Trujillo, a Memory of the World
Memories need new forms or representing the past that confirms their historical veracity through the contemplation of the subjectivity of the person who has suffered it.
Read MoreImagining Peace
One of the greatest obstacles for Colombians to end our long and cruel internal conflict is that we have a lot of difficulty imagining what it would be like to live in peace.
Read MoreCheap Talk
A few weeks ago the Japanese Minister of Education asked to close the social science programs in more than 60 universitities in his country and replace them for programs “that better respond to society’s needs,” like engineering or physics.
Read MoreSugar Republic
Pundits used to use the term banana republic to describe countries where an economic sector was above the law, appointed and dismissed public servants, elected congressmen, enacted regulation as it saw fit, and could steel itself against sanctions for illegal activities.
Read MoreThis Is Not a City of Fags
“We are a same-sex couple of two men in the city of Medellín and through this statement we make a public complaint and express our outrage for the homophobia and physical aggression to which we were victim in one of the businesses in Parque Lleras.” This is how Felipe Cárdenas’ denouncement began in his Facebook status last week.
Read MoreThank You, Grandma!
The unjust death of my grandmother has left a great hole in the hearts of those who knew her and a sense of infinite gratitude for what she taught us through her actions.
Read MoreAutonomy of Ethnic Groups in Post-Conflict Agreements
Ethnic groups’ autonomy and self-government are also international standards. This means that each ethnic group has the right to freely and voluntarily choose how it wants to achieve justice, peace, and reconciliation.
Read More800 Years
This is how old the Magna Carta turned recently, a foundational document of global constitutionalism.
Read MoreFacing the unprotected, where’s the State?
Facing the hostility against the defendants of human rights, why doesn’t he Colombian Government do something?
Read MoreAnd the mining industry, who’s going to make the pay taxes?
The government doesn’t seem interested in putting rails to this derailed locomotive: the tributary reform keeps untouched the enormous privileges that have been granted to it during the last decade.
Read MoreSix Senses’s sixth sense
With the deceitful “agreement” between the indigenous of the Sierra Nevada it is now clear that the Six Senses company is ready to use all the senses of tis name to build, what ever it takes, a luxury hotel in the Tayrona National Park.
Read MoreThe ambious reform to “Justicia y Paz”
On one hand, it could speed up the investigations and on the other hand the reparation could be even harder. The president has now the word.
Read MoreStrike and essential public services
The debate on the legality of the judicial strike suggests a more general problem, that we haven’t debated in a proper manner in Colombia: what should be the adequate regulation to the strike in an “essential public service” (EPS)?
Read MoreThe Court would also say #Noal73
The congressman of the Chamber of Representants José Gonzalo Gutiérrez presented a few days ago a bill that intends to regulate the profession of the political scientists.
Read MoreWho’s who in Pacific Rubiales
Finally, the connection between Pacific Rubiales and some communication media was demonstrated, the one that many of us, columnists, have criticized.
Read MoreThe Farc and their victims
One of the speakers of the Farc in Oslo, Jesú Santrich, argumented that the Farc did not have to respond before no victim, because they are “revolutionary fighters” that have not committed “crimes against the people”, but that they have exercised the universal right to rebellion. This thesis is unacceptable.
Read MoreHow much is culture worth?
Giving breath to the hungry or cultivating his emotions and wishes?
Read MoreSouth american justice
Let the FIFA be prepared. It wouldn’t be at all strange that, now that we are half the way in the eliminatory for the Worldcup 2014 the idea of an International Soccer Federation for Unasur may start to sound in the region. One federation that truly guarantees the independence and sovereignty of our south american soccer.
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