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 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.
Read MoreJurisdiction or military outrage?
In sixth debate and with little public discussion was approved a constitutional reform that enormously increases the military jurisdiction. And that is very concerning.
Read MoreThe non explanations of the Prosecuter
Five weeks ago, in a column in El Espectador, I stated that the General Prosecuter, Alejandro Ordóñez, had violated articule 126 of the Constitution, which is a disciplinary fault of great gravity.
Read MoreThree reasons in favor of euthanasia
Why support the bill on the right to a dead with dignity that passed to second debate in the Congress?
Read MoreThe prosecuter and the “para-politics”
When it is about investigating parapolitics, the prosecuter is no saint at all.
Read MoreValladolid: a contemporary controversy
¿Do or don’t have the indians of the Americas the same dignity as the christians of Europe?
Read MoreBlocking the protest
The Constitutional Court confirmed the Law of Citizen Security that penalizes those who block the roads as a mean of protest. However, this doesn’t mean that blocking a road is enough to go to jail.
Read MoreAn agreement on dying with dignity
Is it posible to reach an agreement around the bill about eutanasia and dying with dignity that is now being discussed in the Congres?
Read MoreIs this your answer Mr. Prosecuter?
Three weeks ago, I invited Prosecuter Ordóñez to debate seriously if he had or not violated article 126 of the Constitution.
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