We have debated much about how social injustice and the state's weakness have influenced violence in Colombia. However, we have not explored how our culture and values affect that same violence.

Dejusticia presented an amicus curiae before the First Court of the Trigésimo First Circuit District of San Francisco de Campeche in the state of Campeche, Mexico to support a process of constitutional protection in which the community of San Antonio de Ébula seeks to protect its fundamental rights after forced displacement in 2009.

When we look for those responsable for the judiciary's crisis, usually the disgraceful ones stick out: the lawyer that says on the record that "ethics have nothing to do with the law," or his client, the judge that puts this phrase into practice and schemes to drag on the investigation that proceeds against him in Congress.