Despite the interests and passions at stake, we must accept and debate with arguments the decision of the inhabitants of Cajamarca to ban mining and protect the water and agricultural interests of their municipality.

Dejusticia intervened before the Constitutional Court in the process of constitutional revision of the law that grants amnesties, pardons and special penal treatments (Law 1820 of 2016).

Dejusticia asked the Constitutional Court to declare invalid Decree-Law 249 of 2017 (DL 249/2017), for two reasons: in issuing this rule, the President of the Republic exceeded the special powers for peace because it did not demonstrate the strict necessity to regulate this subject by this extraordinary way; and the contracting procedure that regulates DL 249/2017 violates the constitutional principles governing public procurement.