The government approved in first debate the bill to increase military tribunals' jurisdiction and thus revive the constitutional reform, which the Constitutional Court annulled last year due to procedural shortcomings.

The State has greater interest in regulating certain professions over others. That depends on how much it affects public interest.

The sociologist Alfedro Molano, one of the few scholars who studied peasant migrations in the national geography, tells many stories about the rural countryside that are, in fact, a single one.

I have never understood why the solidarity and compassion based on equality that inspires the Left usually stops short when the victims are not people but rather animals.

The traditional division between work and roles assigned in rural communities have made it so that women historically have had little to no access to property or land.

If violations don’t care about borders, the tools to address violations should not be limited by them.

How is it possible for communities such as these to be so rich in land, and yet lack the most basic of infrastructure?

Sometimes crucial change occurs silently. While the rest of the country debated the minutia of the balance of powers reform, the Government paid its two-decade old debt to indigenous communities: the promise of the 1991 Constitution to grant them the right to administer their territories and organize their affairs with greater autonomy. Without much ceremony, a decree with an unforgettable number (1953) took this past October 7th a memorable step towards the restoration of full citizenship rights to indigenous peoples.

Ebola was discovered in 1976 and since then has had a score of outbreaks, always with high death rates.