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History has odd coincidences. 

In Holy Week, people would confess.

When land restitution conflicts with the country's mining policy, it is necessary to make decisions that solve these tensions, prioritizing victims' fundamental rights.

They promised us that today, March 23rd, the agreement to end the conflict between the government and the FARC would be signed, but it did not happen this way.

All of us, at one point, have been close to the pain of a loved one: a grandmother with cancer at home, a father at the oncological care unit, a brother ongoing sessions of radio and/or chemotherapy.

It seems that the negotating table in Habana agreed to meet with representatives of indigenous and afro-descendant communities in the next days, after many requests from these groups.

Some three weeks ago I wrote about the confusions that exists in many universities in Colombia (starting with the Catholic ones) between politics, religion, and academia.

Thirty three children have died from hunger this year in Colombia, doubly forgotten: first by the government and then by citizens and the media.

The Court must determine what reasons justify, in our world today, same-sex couple's prohibition to accessing civil matrimony.

Recently, we have heard many voices against putting the peace agreement to a popular vote. Some of them are political while others have a constitutional argument. Nevertheless, the popular vote isn't some whim of the president, it is above all else a direct development of the Constitution.

El proceso de paz de Colombia debería aprender de ejemplos internacionales que hacen uso de la gestión y restauración del medio ambiente como herramientas útiles para promover y reforzar el diálogo y la confianza en situaciones de posconflicto.

The General Public Prosecutor asked the Court that it declare the so-called plesbiscite to put the peace agreement to a popular vote unconstitutional. His argument is that the possiblity of submitting this agreement to a binding citizen vote ignores that the President has complete competency to negotiate peace and that the Constitution does not require the peace agreement be put to a popular vote.