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 MoreThe Assange case: some clarifications
The request of extradition of Julian Assange to Sweden and his political asylum in Equator have provoked a lot of debate. However, some of the arguments need some clarifications.
Read MoreThe world turned up side down. The high courts facing the public.
The thread of a complaint and the subsequent attack of the Penal Chamber against Cecilia Orozco is an example of what’s wrong with many magistrates. Their communication with the citizens is upside down: they react in an intese and sometimes disproportionate way before what the media says and they are not really transparent regarding the substantial core of their functions.
Read MoreWho is the one with a disability?
A couple of weeks ago, we received the olympic medallists as heroes. However no one talks about the 39 colombians with disabilities that are competing on the Paralympic Games in London today. No one talks eather about what this silence tells us about the situation of the people with disabilities in the country.
Read MoreDid the Supreme Court lost its mind?
The announcement made by the Penal Chamber of the Supreme Court of Justice of the filing of a penal complaint against the journalist Cecilia Orozco because of an opinion column is a dangerous way of censorship and a serious attempt agains liberty of speech.
Read MoreIs the Ombudsman’s Office born again?
After nine years of a mute and resigned Omnudsman, it is expected from his successor to have more voice, more independence and more control over the 1400 public officials and a budget of 233 thousand millions of pesos that integrate this office.
Read MoreSome questions for the colombian government
The colombian government has sustained an ambiguos position regarding the reform process of the Interamerican commission of Human RIghts.
Read MoreAssange bound
The extreme openness of Wikileaks produces, no question, truths and sympathies. Who doesn’t want to know the content a box full of the secrets of the powerful and support he who enlightens us? However it also calls into questions, dislikes and persecutions. To avoid ending up naked, many want to bound Assange and, in doing so, they also want to know the methods and sources of this modern Prometheus that has provoked the rage of the gods by stealing their fire and giving it to the humans.
Read MoreA women for the Ombudsman Office
Today the House of Representatives faces the historical opportunity of electing the first female Ombudsman, after 20 years of masculin domain.
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.
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