Tackling Income Inequality to Combat Climate Change
If we want to combat climate change, we must start with combatting economic inequality at the national and international level.
Read MoreThe Illegality of Massive Deportations
The Maduro government’s massive expulsion of Colombians is an inacceptable violations of international law, as shown by the simple contrast between some of the known facts and the standards that internationally regulate the expulsion of foreigners.
Read MoreFatherlands of Paper
In the middle of so many impassioned discussions about the situation in the Colombian-Venezuelan border, I remembered a passage from The World of Yesterday, one of my favorite books.
Read MorePeace, Black Folks, and Indigenous Peoples
Even though unfinished, the peace negotiations between the government and the FARC are giving unexpected results, that show both the opportunities and the most difficult challenges of post-conflict.
Read MoreFraming Climate Change as a Human Rights Issue
States have the responsibility of protecting human rights violations that arise not only from climate impacts, but from actions taken to mitigate emissions or adapt to climate change.
Read MoreKiller Palm?
In the face of expansive palm oil plantations, rural communities demand food sovereignty.
Read MoreGreece and Legacies of Violence
What if we considered these problems not simply as a threat to a notion of peace undergirding the European project, but also as part and parcel of that project’s related legacy of violence?
Read MoreEndorsing the Referendum
Neither the government nor the FARC should break their promise that the eventual peace accord will involve some kind of citizen referendum, that is, that there will be an opportunity for citizens to express their approval or disapproval of the agreement. Indeed, they should take care to ensure there are no ambiguities about this point.
Read MoreReason’s Passion
A couple of weeks ago I wrote an op-ed in which I talked about the two positions regarding the peace process: on one hand those that want to negotiate with a cool head, taming their hate in order to end the subversive cause; and, on the other hand, those that only want to destroy and kill the enemy.
Read MoreEating Mercury
To understand the problems and options of Colombia today, nothing is better than to look into mercury.
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.
Read MoreConsumerism, happiness, and environment
The video of the Uruguayan José Mujica scolding his fellow presidents at the summit of Rio +20 has traveled the world. A speech full of simple questions, the kind that occur to a man who donates 90% of his salary because the rest is enough to sustain his simple life on a farm and get to work on a Volkswagen Model 87.
Read MoreHow is peace going
Latest report by International Crisis Group on BACRIM.
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