Letter from Jamaica
Bolivar’s call in the letter from Jamaica has passed 200 years relatively unnoticed in Colombia.
Read MoreThe Imaginary Country
Colombians tend to find refuge in imagination in order to ignore the hardness of our social life.
Read MoreSantos and the Golden Candidates
Lawyers of my generation grew up in the context of the Constitutional Court’s jurisprudence.
Read MoreBooks and Dollars
The increasing value of the dollar is an opportunity for us to think about the Colombian editorial industry.
Read MoreGoing beyond Numbers: Energy Poverty and Coal
Fighting coal should not only be a matter of number, but of rights.
Read MoreRipe for the ICC?
It’s one thing for the massive deportation by the Venezuelan government to be a clear violation of international law, as I explained in my previous op-ed.
Read MoreBorders and Global (Dis)Order
Borders are in crisis.
Read MoreNow We Say Yes to the CIDH?
The illegal and inexcusable expulsion of Colombian migrants confirm how little basic liberties matter in Venezuela, or in countries like Bolivia, Ecuador, and Nicaragua that supported Venezuela with their vote. But the Colombian setback at the OAS is also a result of the Santos Administration’s human rights foreign policy.
Read MoreThe Judiciary’s Transition
The judiciary’s transition currently underway requires complete attention; the legal system is far too important to leave it adrift.
Read MoreMaduro against the Bolivarian Constitution
The massive deportations against Colombians not only violates international law— as my colleague Rodrigo Uprimny has shown— it also violates the Bolivarian Constitution and the Venezuelan Foreign and Immigration Law (Law 37. 944 of May 24, 2004).
Read MoreInternally displaced population, debts and restitution
Beyond the relief of debts, the displaced population requires complementary measures that guarantee the effective and integral restitution of their lands.
Read MoreDid he smoke it up?
Mayor’s Petro proposal of creating centers for the controlled consume of ilegal drugs is worth assessing and should be debated calmly since it is well guided, even though it wasn’t well presented.
Read MoreIndigenous and military bases: the untold
Commotion was caused by the order of the Constitutional Court that commanded the Ministry of Defense to restitute 6 hectares to the jiw people, that wanders in a state of displacement in its territory, between Meta and Guaviare, sorting by turns Farc’s leag-breaking-mines and the Army’s munition that never exploted.
Read More¿Will Santos continue to break the quota act?
This government has broken the quota act (Ley 581 del 2000) repeatedly. Since its beginnings, Santos confessed that he “isn’t friends” with these measures because he considers that they go against the merits of women who, according to him, have won their space in society. .
Read MoreFreedom of expression and criminal law
The Prosecutor’s criminal complaint against Piedad Cordoba for her speech in Miranda and the mayor Petro’s threat to denounce Noticias Uno for economic panic, due to the dissemination of a report on water pollution in Bogota, show the low esteem of many Colombian officials for freedom of expression, as was well showed by La Silla Vacía.
Read MoreFive myths about the indigenous of Cauca
Judging from the Cauca discussion, the ones with the mythical thinking are not the indigenous, but those who require they be “put in place” with arguments that would be convincing in a Bogotá cocktail, but are completely unaware of the reality of the Nasa and other indigenous peoples. To advance the negotiations in good time convened by the government, it is important to dismantle the myths.
Read MoreThe election of secretaries of the Congress is public
Contrary to the contention of the President of the Senate Juan Manuel Corzo, the election of the secretaries of the House and Senate should not be secret but has to be public and nominal.
Read MoreIlva Myriam Hoyos and the judicial virtues
The State Council should not propose Ilva Myriam Hoyos as a judge for the Constitutional Court, not for her conservative and religious philosophy, but because she lacks some essential virtues to be a good constitutional judge.
Read MoreWho doensn’t risk, gains nothing or how to contribute to transparency
Comments on the draft law on transparency and access to public information recently approved in Congress.
Read MorePossibility of objections unfounded? (with a necessary clarification)
In a great article in El Espectator, my colleague and friend of the Universidad Nacional, Juan Gabriel Gomez Albarello, sharply critics my position.
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