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Carl Von Clausewitz once said that war is the continuation of politics through other means. Many Colombians think that something similar happened with the law here; that is, the the legal debates are a continuations of politics by other means. At least that appears to be the opinion of the 73 percent of residents of Bogota who believe the removal of their mayor Petro from office was unjust.

For the last 7 years, Paraguay has failed to comply with the Inter-American Court of Human Rights' decision ordering land titles for their ancestral land to be granted to the Sawhoyamaxa indigenous community.

While many celebrate Colombia´s World Cup classification, the indigenous people have been marching in protest for over a week.

Oil exploitation in Ecuador and the enlargement of a park in Colombia show the contrast in visions on the Amazon.

"After a public hearing convened by the Constitutional Court about the Legal Framework for Peace, the Kaleidoscope Team interviewed Luz María Sánchez Duque, researcher from the Center for the Study of Law, Justice, and Society (Dejusticia)."

Mister "Rayón" is a curious character that appeared this semester in the Bogotá campus of Universidad Nacional de Colombia. Dressed as a superhero and wearing a gas mask, his mission consisted in modifying the serious and conservative revolutionary graffiti filling the walls of the so-called "White City".

Now that political participation is being discussed in Havana, FARC proposed to radically reform the structure of the state, build a political system based on popular organizations and to countersign all this through a constitutional assembly.

In 1974 Marc Galanter wrote a notorious article about how justice operates in the Unites States. Its title in Spanish could be something like: Why do rich people always win? Throughout this text, Galanter shows how a litigation depends less on the judges and the laws than of the lawyers: the greater prestige and wealthiness of the lawyers, the easier to win lawsuits.

Last week I was in Cartagena, along with a foreign colleague. We were assisting an academic event.

This country's inspector general is known for his strong religious convictions, which, according to himself, enlighten his public and private life.

As it is known, Ruth Mariana Díaz, president of the Supreme Court, was granted permission to travel in a cruise across the Caribbean, along with judges of the tribunal that depend on her vote to be accepted in the Supreme Court.

The state must act to break the cycle of attacks, abuses and threats committed against the Wiwa indigenous population of the mountain range of Santa Marta.