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The unhappy christmas of Justice

For over 15 years I have been writing and talking good about the colombian justice branch Even after all its tricks and defects, I have believed that the Judicial Branch is the more part of the State that one could more easily rescue.
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Travelling the old fashion way

I love to travel through the colombian roads. I enjoy passing from one mountain chaine to the other one; crossing the big rivers that come from the Massif; feeling the changes of climate, the smells of the tropic and watching the contrasting and amazing geography of these country.
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The paper-made-Colombia

This country has been conceived and imagined from the slopes of the Andes. From there, the politica elites, have comfortably governed, without knowing very well what's going on in the los lands that surround the three national mountain-chains; just like, centuries ago, it was the imperial authorities from Madrid that managed these colonial territories did the same.
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Santos’s steril uribism

The number that concerns me the most from the opinion poll "Colombia Opina' is the 83% of compatriots that propose to disobey the decision of the International Court of Justice (ICJ).
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Pocket justice

In case of conflict between justice and law, what should prevail? This has been debated since the classic Greece. There are those who say that justice prevails because it representes a universal value. Others say no, that law prevails because the ideal of justice changes through time.
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Uribe’s reality

Many of the great political leaders have been talented communicators. Charles de Gaulle, for example, had a particular capacity to interprete the feelings of the french and to design, with his words, real utopies that united and mobilized the people. Uribe's communication talented doesn't consist in mobilizing people through a speech that shows a reachable future. His thing is more like playing a character of Big Brother, with the lightness of the "Protagonista de novela".
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War’s breaking

Last tuesday the race for the United State's presidency ended. But I think that, even more important than that, at least for us in Colombia, was the popular decision, that same day, of legalizing the cannabis consume in the states of Washington and Colorado.
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Publicists and altruism

Travelling through the roads of Antioquia I watch a sign from the "Legan Antioquia campaign", promoted by governor Sergio Fajardo. It reads as follows: "If someone provokes you, will you swindle him or her on a deal? There is a very thin line between being legal and being ilegal; where are you?".
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Oil’s media

In march I published a column with the results of an OCDE study that showed how a country depends on oil's exportation less habilites and knowledge is acquired their youngsters through the education system.
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