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The Prosecutor's Office should provide information on negotiations such as those made with former Governor Lyons to assess whether they are effective and prevent another cartel from forming.

The unforeseen incidents of bringing together a handful of indigenous leaders from around the world to Colombia for the First Global Workshop for Indigenous Leaders.

Justice through people's own hands and the deaths in neighborhoods fights show the failure of the State in several sectors of the city, especially those that are outside the tourist circuit.

The census that began this week does not have the questions to properly account for the LGBT population, or the peasant population, or to evaluate multidimensional poverty.

The census that began to run electronically this week is characterized by improvisation, smallness and inequity.

How is the State going to take peasants into account in its policies if it does not count them in its main instrument for collecting information, which is the census? The request of peasants is fair because this population has historically suffered from structural discrimination. A single piece of data shows that: rural poverty (45%) is approximately three times higher than urban poverty (15%).

The Missing Persons Search Unit has become a beacon of hope for the more than 60,000 families who carry with them the daily torture of enforced disappearances: the helpless waiting for clues as to the whereabouts of their loved one.

What makes members of divided societies carefully consider the reasons for and against a decision before adopting it?

Language has a political and symbolic dimension and that is why it is an important space to look for cultural transformations.

We must be deeply aware that in 2018 we will renew the representatives of the executive and legislative branches. In that context, we must have the vision to understand that those decisions will define the trajectory of the next decade.

Despite the fact that this oversight body has found many breaches of the Transparency Law, it has not imposed a single sanction yet. The sanctions regime has not even been defined.

The sentence by the Cundinamarca Tribunal that ordered the president of the Senate to send the legislative act on circumscriptions to President Santos for its promulgation is legally correct.