How Does the Judiciary Fare in the Balance of Powers Reform?
Congress finally approved the balance of power reforms that ammends the Constitution and includes changes to the state structure.
Read MoreStadiums, Atrocities and Memory
For those of us who were young in the seventies, the American Cup’s final match between Argentina and Chile in the National Stadium of Santiago evokes certain associations between two emblematic stadiums and two terrible dictatorships.
Read MorePeace Remains the Path to Follow
A couple weeks ago I traveled to Florence to give a talk about transitional justice in a workshop series that have a suggestive but ambitious name: “How to Narrate Peace.”
Read MoreFranciscan Environmentalism (II)
I said in the previous op-ed that the new papal encyclical Praise Be To You could infuse the debate about the environmental crisis with some much needed moral impetus.
Read MoreAmong Microfocalization and Other Demons of Land Restitution
I am unsure if the land restitution process is dying or not, but it is undeniable that it progresses slowly and that it is necessary to start planning from now strategies to make it more agile.
Read MoreToo Big to Fail? Not in Latin America
In an unprecedented step, various countries in Latin America are moving forward with trials against high-ranking government officials as citizen movements against corruption strengthen.
Read MoreA Hopeful Advance for Equality
There aren’t many occassions that allow you to have a certain degree of optimism that it is possible to build a freer, more pluralist and just world.
Read MoreI’m Going to Need Some Identification
It is increasingly common to find members of the Police with a cellphone or computer on hand, asking people for their national identification to “run a background check.”
Read MoreFranciscan Environmentalism
Reading the new papal encyclical Praise Be To You, it is clear that Francisco I seeks for climate change what Leon XIII acomplished in Rights and Duties of Capital and Labor, the social issue at the turn of the nineteenth century.
Read MoreThe Borges’ Encyclopedia of the Balance of Power Reform
Beyond if what lawmakers have approved in the balance of powers reform is good or bad, it teaches us a lesson on how not to do a constitutional reform in the future.
Read MoreAccess to justice for women victims of gross violations of human rights in the context of armed conflict. Transitional justice.
This paper aims to present a diagnosis of the major barriers to access to justice faced by women victims of gross violations of human rights occurring in the course and development of the Colombian armed conflict and who undertake processes in order to obtain rights enforcement under the criminal proceedings of the Justice and Peace Law (Act 975 of 2005).
Read MoreUribe Velez, drugs, and prohibition.
As the Summit of the Americas could pose a crack to the political consensus in favor of prohibition, some begin to repeat arguments which have been used for decades against any challenge to existing policies.
Read MoreDrugs: regulatory alternative (II)
Prohibition failed because it is unable to control illicit drug supply and causes terrible collateral damage.
Read MoreDrugs, key debate in Summit of the Americas
A possible scenario of legalization will be one of the central themes of the meeting of heads of state next week.
Read MoreLand restitution: achievements, challenges, and gaps
In “Revista de la Mañana”, Nelson Camilo Sánchez referred to the threat of anti-restitution armies faced by peasant leaders.
Read MoreThe crisis of the Incoder: land to fertilize or an opportunity to cut from the root?
The bottom line now is what to do with the Incoder.
Read MoreThe private gag of the pundits
With the purchase of “El Tiempo” by the Sarmiento group, many columnists have warned the risk that the economic interests of the conglomerate compromise the independence of the newspaper.
Read MoreThe challenges of the new General Attorney regarding the judgment of forced displacement
The renowned criminalist Eduardo Montealegre will stren as General Attonery this week.
Read MoreA constitution more malleable than platinum
The South African state bends its constitutional pillars when it allows the excesses of a tribal billionaire king who oppresses the communities but promotes the exploitation of platinum.
Read MoreDrugs: regulatory alternative (i)
The discussion of drugs to be held in the Summit of the Americas should not be limited to noting the failure and the costs of prohibition. It should also advance in the search of reasonable alternatives.
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