Antioquia’s Future
I don’t usually express sympathy in this op-ed for a specific political candidate or party.
Read MoreReturning to Mass
I found myself returning to mass after a quarter century.
Read MoreCartagena: What Tourists Don’t See
Cartagena is promoted as the crown jewel of Colombia’s tourist destinations.
Read MoreAccounting for Human Rights: Lessons from Syria
The crisis in Syria shows how essential budgetary analysis is for human rights advocacy and accountability.
Read MorePlagiarism, Carelessness, and Reinterpretations
One thing is to take advantage of and reinterpret someone else’s work, but it is another to make a mistake in a bibliographic citation, and it is entirely different to plagiarize.
Read MoreThe New Peoples
During the colony and the majority of the nineteenth century, the central plaza was almost a holy place.
Read MoreEating Is a Political Act
Food jumped from the pages of cookbooks to political and legal headlines.
Read MoreIn Defense of Latin America’s Indigenous People’s Right to Counsel
Indigenous communities are subject to the “official” justice system in various situations (as victims, witnesses, or the accused) and they have additional rights to those guaranteed to all citizens. In practice, to what extent are these rights guaranteed? In reality, rarely.
Read MoreState TV
Security cameras have not proved their efficacy to combat crime, but they have proven their use in invading privacy and unjustly imprisoning people.
Read MoreSolicitor General, Be Generous with Peace!
It surprises me the little generosity of Alejandro Ordóñez with the accord on the Special Peace Jurisdiction, even when much of what has been agreed coincides with some of the recommendations he made a few weeks ago.
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.
Read MoreWhat if we come down of the mining locomotive?
That’s the question that Nicholas Stern, the well known economist that did an influent study on the costos of climate change and who came to the anual congress of the National Hydrocarbure Agency in Cartagena, left hanging.
Read MoreHow does skin color taste?
“For the lion, a lemon ice cream”, says the children’s song. And it seems that for people there’s also a special flavour.
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