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As we wactch justice reform become a turbulent river, it is a good time to look back and ask ourselves if we would reelect the representatives in Congress we elected back then.

The justice reform that has just been approved by the Congress is similar to President Uribe's re-election referendum in 2009. Both sought to amend the Constitution to benefit its promoters: Uribe, to be kept in power, and the congressmen, to have a more benevolent justice for themselves.

I do not like national television. I can't stand the amount of bad and misleading advertising and I hate the way the private channels manipulate the viewer, changing times and duration of programs.

Nearly three weeks ago Eduardo Merlano refused to perform an alcohol breath test on a police checkpoint with the lewd argument that he was a senator.

Imagination plays an important role in the construction of social reality. So it is worth asking questions like: What would Colombia be without FARC?

Two weeks ago I wrote a column about the letter that Monsignor Juan Vicente Cordoba sent to the country's Catholics to alert them of the eventual approval of child adoption by same-sex couples in the Constitutional Court.

On Sunday morning, on the streets of Barranquilla, the police stopped Senator Eduardo Merlano.

Related to the decision the Constitutional Court will soon take regarding the adoption of children by same-sex couples, Monsignor Juan Vicente Cordoba, secretary of the Episcopal Conference, sent a letter (http://bit.ly/IN2tHX) to Catholics where he invites them to unite against the Courts decisions in matters of life and family.

Suppose you have a house with a friend and that everyone has a place in the building.

The high votes obtained by the candidates from the extreme right in the presidential campaigns currently being conducted in France and the United States was astonishing. Last Sunday, in France, Marine Le Pen, National Front candidate, obtained 18% of the votes, well over 11% earned by Jean-Luc Mélenchon from the extreme left. While the winner of the contest was François Hollande from the Socialist Party (28% of the votes), the votes for Le Pen were very high and it converts her party into a major political player for the elections of 2017.

The Summit of Cartagena became a debate over the image of Colombia to the world. Did this event really improve that image? Naturally, there were two positions. The optimistic and pessimistic.

A fundamentalist is someone who always accommodates reality to his beliefs and, because of that, is never willing to adapt its principles to the changes occurring in the world.