Columns & Blogs

There is two ways to debate the government's reversal and Ecopetrol president's comments in the case allowing for the drilling of oil in Macarena.

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While all mining creates various problems, including environmental and social, these problems are magnified with illegal gold mining practices.

Colombia has to eradicate its own war against drugs and redirect its resources to consolidating democracy and development in rural areas.

Next year institutions charged with the protection of rights and the constitution are at play.

It has been a difficult process and there is much more to do. But the criticisms by the Solicitor General and the ranchers' union do not have any basis when, in the contrary, they should have to double their efforts to repair the damages of such a brutal war.

It is valid to warn that land restitution could affect poor rural communities that occupy a piece of restituted land, as the problem of "secondary occupants" is complex and deserved to be discussed.

The Defense Minister Luis Carlos Villegas said last Tuesday that the "bacrim" have turned into small criminal organizations that, although they have the capacity to intimidate, are not paramilitaries, but rather straightforward criminality.

When historians write the chronicle of the Santos Administration, they will say that the agreement with the FARC was his great achievement and the abandonment of the environment his failure.

While Colombia looks to the post-conflict, putting peace initiatives on the agenda, the project of the development plan "Bogotá for Everyonw" 2016-2019 does not take this national goal into account.

We have to insist that no drug user should be treated as a criminal and that the majority is far the dominant stereotype. 

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By now you have likely heard of the Panama Papers. Leaked to the German newspaper Süddeutsche Zeitung by an anonymous source, the Papers include over 11.5 million records from the files of Mossack Fonseca, a Panamanian law firm that helped politicians, drug dealers, athletes, businessmen, and other rich clients hide wealth and evade taxes through offshore shell companies, investment funds, and tax havens.

This is the name of the book that the National University will launch April 28th and that compiles some of the best constitutional law texts written by Juan Jaramillo, our dear friend and Dejusticia and university colleague, who passed away too soon four years ago.