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Last week, Nicolas Uribe, a columnist of this newspaper, recalled the importance of confining ourselves to serious arguments in the abortion debate.

One of the most difficult questions to resolve in a society open to dialogue is: how far should we tolerate the intolerant?

Aristotle said that fair or equal treatment was all about treating equal cases equally and different cases differently.

I DON'T MEAN TO spoil the party of the 20th of july, but I think a celebration like this should not only be a reason to exalt our glories (rather rare, in fact), but also an occasion to reflect on our mistakes as a society or what we have not been able to achieve in these two centuries of republican life.

All societies (like people) at some point ask for their identity.

Faith in God is not the result of reason but of will.

NEXT MONDAY, the 20 years of the 1991 Constitution will be celebrated.

Now that President Santos' first year of legislature has ended and many rules have been voted and promulgated, perhaps it is worth asking one of the oldest and most fundamental questions of law and power theory: what makes people obey the law?

This week the tensions between President Uribe and former President Santos heightened. According to the media, what caused the deterioration were Uribe's statements to the newspaper La Tarde of Pereira, where he said that the present Government wanted to pass him off as corrupt.

MANY HAVE praised this week the 1991 Constitution on the eve of the celebration of the twenty years after its promulgation. This should not make us forget, however, that in Colombia there are people who oppose the Constitution.

I HAVE NOT READ "THE WITCH", OF CASTRO Caicedo, nor have I seen the TV series based on his book, but I know Fredonia, the town in Antioquia where the events occurred and I also know the story of Jaime Builes, the protagonist of the story.

The following is a response to the letter sent by Senator Gilma Jiménez in relation to this blog entry published last week titled "Legal Populism".