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The Constitutional Court's decision leaves us a message for current debates about other forms of censorship that the industry deploys. One particularly worrisome is the use or pressure on the media to not transmit pedagogical messages such as those by Educar Consumidores.

Justice is a necessary condition to consolidate peace. We owe a coordinated, effective, and efficient state offer of justice to people in forgotten municipalities who have suffered the conflict.

Many men have difficulty understanding the fears that many women experience when facing the threat of harassment. We fail to understand the vulnerability that women feel in situations that men consider safe and banal, such as walking through certain places.

The gregarious energies of contemporary sapiens are increasingly concentrated in small, self-absorbed and selfish groups.

In Colombia we are late in documenting the industry lobby: their contributions to political campaigns, the pressure on Congress' members at the time of deliberation and voting. A good start is to keep track of the lobbyists and merchants of the doubt dealing with asbestos and ultra-processed foods.

The necessary independence of judges has been an argument against some attempts to reform justice. But it is a concept with multiple interpretations, and therefore we must clarify it in order to proceed with the reforms.

As we assess and reassess Puerto Rico in the wake of the hurricanes - as well as the many crises and hurricanes to come across the globe - we must attend to crisis, and also cannot lose our sense of the structural, the chronic, the organic.

The future of humanity could be on the side of cosmopolitanism, not patriotism, which today seems more a form of collective selfishness than popular democracy.

The weight of state neglect fell on the 40 year-old building in the Santa Rita Market, until the community's claims bore fruit in June 2011, when the Mayor of Cartagena socialized the designs for its renovation and left in a 12,000 million pesos allocation for its construction. However, today the work is a monument to district inefficiency.

You do not have to be perceptive to guess that in the country championing cosmetic surgery, entertainment or advertising, these are not the only sectors where there is harassment, or where there is a fine line ranging from lascivious compliments and misogynistic jokes to workplace abuse and sexual violence.

Las reformas a la justicia deben partir de análisis integrales. Esto no significa que no puedan incorporar herramientas específicas para enfrentar ciertos problemas como la congestión judicial. Significa que en ciertos asuntos, las reformas deben tener una visión de Estado.

"Juntas" tells the story of the first female couple who married in Latin America and who, after two decades of living outside Colombia, return to the country to remember. A delicate and intimate film that leaves us many lessons for activism in the region.