Columns & Blogs
Columns & Blogs
The Female Judges
By Nathalia Sandoval Rojas |
For the first time after more than 20 years, 3 of the 9 judges of the Constitutional Court are women. A delightful fact but one that does not stop being questionable.
Read more Health Versus Trade All Over Again
By Tatiana Andia Rey |
What seems to be at stake here is not the safety of the patients but rather the profits of a booming pharmaceutical market.
Read more Revolving Door
By César Rodríguez-Garavito (Retired in 2019) |
While the government proposes to close the embarrassing revolving door between the courts, it widens the entrance to appoint the Super-Minister Néstor Humberto Martínez.
Read more Galán, Drugs, and Mafias
By Rodrigo Uprimny Yepes |
Juan Manuel Galán presented a bill to legalize the use of medicinal marijuana on the 25th year anniversary of his father's assassination.
Read more Political Participation and Post-Conflict
By Nelson Camilo Sánchez León |
In agreement with what President Juan Manuel Santos has expressed publicly multiple times, one of the primary objectives of the peace process is for the guerrilla members to change "bullets for votes."
Read more The Two Faces of the Past
By Mauricio García Villegas |
In the last op-eds I have argued with Eduardo Posada Carbó and other commentators have joined the debate, among them Santiago Montenegro, Óscar Guardiola, and Darío Acevedo.
Read more The Cost of Being a Woman
By Celeste Kauffman |
It is expensive to be a woman in our capitalist and sexist society.
Read more A Country Full of Doctors
By César Rodríguez-Garavito (Retired in 2019) |
Even though a Mexican came up with it, I have always thought that the classic conversation of Chespirito provides an insightful commentary of the Colombian reality: —Hey, Lucas. —Tell me, college graduate. —College graduate! —Thank you, thank you very much!
Read more Humanitarian Crisis to Wait until after Recess
By Dejusticia |
Until appropriate action is taken, child migrants will lie within the purgatory of political inaction in the face of crisis.
Read more White-Skinned Maid Needed
By Ana Margarita González Vásquez |
The high-profile case of racial discrimination in Cali in which a classified employment ad stated the need for a "white-skinned" female surgical physician brought attention to a common phenomenon in the city with one of the largest afrodescendant populations in the country (27% of Cali's population is afrodescendant according to the last census).
Read more Victims, Pain and Hope
By Rodrigo Uprimny Yepes |
The topic of the victims is one of the most difficult for the peace process, but victims themselves may the best equipped to confront it.
Read more Federalism
By Mauricio García Villegas |
Francisco Maturarana's prestige began to decline when, after a soccer match, he said the famous phrase: "we lost, but we won a little bit."
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