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Brexit, which will make the United Kindgom (UK) leave the European Union (UE) brings at least two lessons for the plebiscite, especially for young voters.

The final peace accord is already building peace. In fact, it is triggering one of the essential and most difficult conditions: the recognition and the request for forgiveness for those responsible of the victims' suffering during the most painful events in the war. 

On October 2^nd, those of us who believe in diversity, equality, freedom, and respecting differences have the responsibility to vote YES in the plebiscite on the peace accords.

No one believes the lie that the FARC is an organization with no money and that the relevant agencies have no clue about the guerilla's resources. 

 Many of those who invite others to vote NO on the plebiscite claim that they are not against negotiated peace, but that they believe the accord to be unacceptable because of the impunity it establishes due to the fact that it does not require jail time for all those responsible for international crimes like massacres, kidnappings, disappearances, children recruitment or sexual violence. 

Some considered that Maria Isabel Rueda was inconsistent when after severely criticizing the peace process, she decided to vote YES on the plebiscite.

Conspiracy theories are less often than not on point. Social phenomena are often more complex than the stories of furtive strategies and collective fraud that complot theorists suggest. To prove whether conspiracies do exist is a difficult matter that tests the efforts of memorable journalists or researchers. 

The senator Viviane Morales and Carlos Alonso Lucio, head of the Referendum Supporters Committe, continue their effort to constitutionally establish an excluding family model that goes against the Constitution and the reality of Colombian families.

It is true that VAT exemptions in the basket of consumer goods is not only ideal, but the best we have at the moment.

The Inspctor General attributed the invalidation of his reelection to the Havana accords and his opposition to the peace process, seeking to create confusion, minimize the illegalities that he committed so he could be reelected and deligitimize the State Council sentence. If the decisions was a response to the accords, it could not be backed by the law.

The peace accord is an opportunity to face several challenges in the judicial system. In this column, I discuss one priority challenge for all citizens.