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The Ombudsman is institutionally a paradoxical public servant as he/she serves an essential role, but lacks coercive power.

University of Antioquia students have been on strike for a month and a half.

The Ombudsman, who has done a good job carrying out his duties, unfortunately has become focused on defending his post.

In the 21st century there are still parts of the Colombian police force that use torture, directing it to the most vulnerable populations.

Islam is not responsible for fundamentalist terrorism or the Islamic State's war crimes.

Is Colombia the country of moderation and the right balance or the country of extremes and excesses?

I find three social attitudes to be particularly unpleasant: intolerance towards those that think differently, indifference towards social injustice, and the call to war to solve problems stemming from nationalism or religion. That's why I identitfy with three philosophical traditions: liberalism, social democracy, and pacifism. 

They say that the expression in Spanish “to have the faith of a coal miner”— a blind faith, devoid of a grip on reality— comes from a famous anecdote from fifteenth-century Spain, which involved a coal miner.

This November will be remembered as a liberal month.

The peace process treats gendered violence in a differentiated manner because it has been invisibilized like no other offense.