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Senators Bernardo Ñoño and Musa Besaile, from Córdoba, recieved 140,000 and 145,000 votes respectively in this past election.

As the use of consultations has grown alongside strong citizen rejection of extractivism, there has also been an increase of government and business efforts to stop them.

When I was a law student, many countries in Latin America were governed by military juntas. But in Colombia, the president was a civilian and we regularly had elections. The professors in my department saw that contrast as a reason to exalt the civilian tradition of our people.

In the Law Faculty of the University of Antioquia there is a plaque (I guess it is still there today) honoring the judges who were murdered in 1985 in the Palace of Justice siege. It reads: "If the appearance of a judges signals the transition from a natural state to a civilized coexistente, their brutal sacrifice in the crossfire of intransigents is the most dramatic symbol of the return to the barbarism."

I provide an implementation map of the right to FPIC in Latin America, showcasing the countries that have created national legislation to implement the right.

If we had to measure how much a person respects the rule of law, I would propose that we count the number of times a person complies with the law, regardless of whether they end up harmed by complying with it or whether they ideologically agree with the law.

The Inter-American System’s individual complaint procedure is in many cases the only opportunity for thousands of people in the Americas to be heard and eventually receive an effective remedy.

In Colombia, politicians don't resign themselves to losing. Once a congressional election for is over we witness the same ritual of the losers denouncing that the winners committed fraud (along with the electoral authorities).

The government could formulate a policy that reconciles the rights of the community, the protection of the environment, and the development of tuorism to resolve these tensions.

The US’ failure gives the global South a perfect opportunity to take a leading role in using drones in a way that respects international law and human rights.

According to a popular saying, societies have the governments they deserve, and by extension, the customs and politicians they deserve. There is something both true and false about this saying.

I am sure the unemployed, the homeless, the families going hungry in the United States and Europe, as well as in India, China and South Africa, can remind global elites that we still have a long way to go in ensuring that all people have a respectable standard of living.