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The judiciary's transition currently underway requires complete attention; the legal system is far too important to leave it adrift.

The massive deportations against Colombians not only violates international law— as my colleague Rodrigo Uprimny has shown— it also violates the Bolivarian Constitution and the Venezuelan Foreign and Immigration Law (Law 37. 944 of May 24, 2004). 

The Maduro government's massive expulsion of Colombians is an inacceptable violations of international law, as shown by the simple contrast between some of the known facts and the standards that internationally regulate the expulsion of foreigners.

In the middle of so many impassioned discussions about the situation in the Colombian-Venezuelan border, I remembered a passage from The World of Yesterday, one of my favorite books.

Even though unfinished, the peace negotiations between the government and the FARC are giving unexpected results, that show both the opportunities and the most difficult challenges of post-conflict.

In the face of expansive palm oil plantations, rural communities demand food sovereignty. 

Neither the government nor the FARC should break their promise that the eventual peace accord will involve some kind of citizen referendum, that is, that there will be an opportunity for citizens to express their approval or disapproval of the agreement. Indeed, they should take care to ensure there are no ambiguities about this point.

A couple of weeks ago I wrote an op-ed in which I talked about the two positions regarding the peace process: on one hand those that want to negotiate with a cool head, taming their hate in order to end the subversive cause; and, on the other hand, those that only want to destroy and kill the enemy.

To understand the problems and options of Colombia today, nothing is better than to look into mercury.