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 MoreThe non reasons for the extended the military jurisdiction (II)
A second reason that is often invoked to extend the military jurisdiction is that it aims to give military and police men more juridical security. But this second justification isnt’ neither convincing nor acceptable, as was the first one, that I revised in my las column.
Read MoreLand restitution: is it a trap?
Since the expedition of the Law of victims, many broad debates have developed themselves in relation to the restitution policy. The most recent one emerged with tregard to the formal installment of the peace dialogues.
Read MoreInterbolsa and the regulations’s sins
By chances of the sociologist’s trade, a few years ago, I ended up studying the world of the stock market.
Read MoreRecreational cannabis, will it fall or will ir be regulated?
The legalization of the carriage and consume of cannabis in Colorado and Washington, as some analysits have pointed it out, can be the beginning of the end of prohibitionism, or at least an opportunity to debate better alternatives of policies, that are less expensive in both economic and human rights terms.
Read MoreThe non reasons for the extended the military jurisdiction (I)
None of the reasons invoked to extend the military jurisdiction is neither convenient nor acceptable.
Read MoreHuman Rights: New Threats in the Hemisphere
In her novel, In the Time of the Butterflies, Julia Álvarez describes an international mission to visit the Mirabal sisters when two of the four women were in jail for opposing the Rafael Trujillo regime in the Dominican Republic. Three of the sisters were later assassinated on November 25, 1960—a date later designated by the United Nations as the International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women.
That mission was an historic landmark in the Americas: the first on-site visit carried out by what became the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR).
Read MoreThe still pending answers of the Cerrejón
The sudden decision of Cerrejon of suspending the studies to divert the Ranchería river and explote coal in its bed left more questions than answers.
Read MoreThe decline of prohibition?
Last tuesday two votings took place in the United States that may be even more important for Colombia and Latin america than the reelection of Obama: in the states of Colorado and Washington (not the federal district), a majority of citizens approved the legalization of cannabis.
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.
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