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Before the Piedras popular consultation, one had never been done before, but that does mean they were not obligatory, and even less that they are not legal. 

The Attorney General has the right, as a person, to be against euthanasia, but it is illegitimate for him to abuse his powers to impose his religious views. This is exactly what he did by presuring the Ministry of Health to not fulfill an order given by the Constitutional Court about euthanasia. 

In a just society, merit and effort are reflected in a person's pay for his or her job. This idea is illustrated in a famous quote from Bill Clinton: "if you work hard and don't break the rules, you can expect the country to give you an opportunity to a decent life and that your kids will have a better life than you did."

Many have correctly criticized the "express compilation" of norms that the Ministry of Environment promulgated last week, a hefty volume of 732 pages that although seeks to replace all the decrees in the matter, was released only three days prior to the end of the period for comments.

The call by a significant portion of society to intensify attacks agains the FARC and suspend peace talks in Havana contradicts our indignation in the face of violence and wish for building peace.

An important question for policies regarding racial and ethnic diversity is who is who?

In the face of the crisis– and the stikes– in the judiciary, these alternative centers of attention become more important. What are they, what have they done, and how can they improve their services in Colombia.

In my past Op-ed I argued for reforming referendum and repeal voting processes to replace the current "participatory threshold" to an "approbatory threshold."

Michel de Montaigne, the great French renaissance thinker, said that humans are not superior to animals and that the idea of evading our own animal condition is stupid and stubborn arrogance.

There's something a bit circular and paradoxical in Juan Carlos Echeverry's defense of fracking. The president of Ecopetrol says today that "we cannot give ourselves the luxury" of not extracting pretroleum using that technique despite the serious risks it poses for our water and environment.

Levying some type of cost on entities that violate fundamental rights is a better strategy for avoding judicial congestion than recurring proposals asking for more money and more judges for the judiciary.