In Defense of the Defense
The application of human rights is only possible if there exists criminal due process, which includes the right to effective criminal defense.
Read MorePandora’s Box
On security issues, it seems that authorities care more about perception than action. When what matters is what citizens perceive, strategies lend themselves more to the marketing of problems than substantive solutions.
Read MoreWhite, Black and Blues
I like the blues. It’s a musical genre based on a 12-beat rhythm that is accompanied by a kind of wail that produces a sensation of sweet melancholy.
Read MoreWhat Are the Roots of the Countryside?
Today, in the middle of Bogotá, people say that the roots of business are in the countryside.
Read MoreXenophobic Racism?
“I’m not racist, but I don’t want Black immigrants in my country.”
Read MoreThe Solicitor General’s Invalidity
The Solicitor General, in an interview last Wednesday, stated that the litigation that seeks for the Council of State to anull his reelection does not have any legal substance and are motivated by criminal and political interests.
Read MoreAn Ultimatum for the FARC?
Last week, The Economist commented on the peace process in Colombia. In an editorial titled “Time to Call the Farc’s Bluff”, the magazine recognizes the process’ progress, but worries about the critical moment that the process finds itself in given recent violence and the lack of concrete agreements regarding transitional justice.
Read MoreThe Hacked Hacker
If someone wanted to know the most information possible about a person, ideally one would embody them. Given that this is impossible, it leaves the option of hacking a person’s computer or phone to read their emails, chats, google search history, as well as turn on their camera and film what happens in their surroundings and their microphone to hear everything… almost like becoming that person at a distance.
Read MoreWho Says the Truth?
Unfounded and uninformed criticism only serves to deepen the crisis that the Peace Process is currently experiencing and places in jeopardy the best opportunity we have had to overcome the armed conflict.
Read MoreMarriage Is Not Enough: Beyond Legal Recognition
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The U.S. became the twenty-second country in the world to approve marriage equality nationally following the U.S. Supreme Court ruling on Obergefell v Hodges.
Read MoreThe FARC and humanitarian law
At the time when the debate on the legal framework for peace is at height, the FARC have helped with their actions to make it difficult to even consider a possible scenario of politically negotiating the armed conflict.
Read MoreThe political reform of the justice reform
Instead of addressing the underlying problems in the justice reform has focused on the legal problems of the Congress. Some of these changes are legitimate, but others are doubtful, or are just monkeys. A rigorous and comprehensive assessment of the reforms for Congress.
Read MoreThe incredible and sad life of the Disciplinary Chamber
This seems to be the beginning of the end of the infamous Disciplinary Chmaber, perhaps the least presentable body of the Colombian judiciary.
Read MoreCartagena is passion
It is unbelievable the outrage created by the bad international press Cartagena received due to the “sexygate” of Obama’s bodyguards.
Read MoreThe elbow of the MANE?
The lack of clarity of the MANE against the use of violence as a form of struggle is problematic and could be a boomerang for the movement itself.
Read MoreTo the memory of a ‘leveller’: Juan Fernando Jaramillo
The premature death of Juan Fernando Jaramillo, founder of Dejusticia, colleague from the Universidad Nacional and the Constitutional Court, and close friend, leaves a void difficult to fill, because we lost a remarkable scholar, a just judge, and a great teacher. But most of all we lost an exceptional person.
Read MoreReleive in the Incoder: new air and last sighs
The outgoing director was a scapegoat to hide the lack of concrete progress on the flagship program of the President: return two million hectares to victims. A balance of the inherited problems and challenges that the incoming director and the government as a whole face.
Read MoreJuan Fernando Jaramillo, an intellectual who knew how to laugh
Founding member of Dejusticia, died last Thursday.
Read MoreThe government’ contradictions in Lleras Act 2.0
The prohibition of retransmission is a more difficult by all involved Lleras 2.0 Act in the era of information.
Read MoreIs Act Lleras 2.0 unconstitutional?
After the feast of the Cartagena Summit, comes the hangover.
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