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The Female Judges

For the first time after more than 20 years, 3 of the 9 judges of the Constitutional Court are women. A delightful fact but one that does not stop being questionable.
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Health Versus Trade All Over Again

What seems to be at stake here is not the safety of the patients but rather the profits of a booming pharmaceutical market.
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Revolving Door

While the government proposes to close the embarrassing revolving door between the courts, it widens the entrance to appoint the Super-Minister Néstor Humberto Martínez.
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Galán, Drugs, and Mafias

Juan Manuel Galán presented a bill to legalize the use of medicinal marijuana on the 25th year anniversary of his father's assassination.
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Political Participation and Post-Conflict

In agreement with what President Juan Manuel Santos has expressed publicly multiple times, one of the primary objectives of the peace process is for the guerrilla members to change "bullets for votes."
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The Two Faces of the Past

In the last op-eds I have argued with Eduardo Posada Carbó and other commentators have joined the debate, among them Santiago Montenegro, Óscar Guardiola, and Darío Acevedo.
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The Cost of Being a Woman

It is expensive to be a woman in our capitalist and sexist society.
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A Country Full of Doctors

Even though a Mexican came up with it, I have always thought that the classic conversation of Chespirito provides an insightful commentary of the Colombian reality: —Hey, Lucas. —Tell me, college graduate. —College graduate! —Thank you, thank you very much!
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Humanitarian Crisis to Wait until after Recess

Until appropriate action is taken, child migrants will lie within the purgatory of political inaction in the face of crisis.
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White-Skinned Maid Needed

The high-profile case of racial discrimination in Cali in which a classified employment ad stated the need for a "white-skinned" female surgical physician brought attention to a common phenomenon in the city with one of the largest afrodescendant populations in the country (27% of Cali's population is afrodescendant according to the last census).
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Victims, Pain and Hope

The topic of the victims is one of the most difficult for the peace process, but victims themselves may the best equipped to confront it.
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Federalism

Francisco Maturarana's prestige began to decline when, after a soccer match, he said the famous phrase: "we lost, but we won a little bit."
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