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Citizen constitutionalism

Clemenceu once said that war is too serious a matter to leave to the military alone. I also believe that the Constitution is too serious a matter to leave to the constitutional courts alone.

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Who is a populist?

Populists are, in the end, antidemocratic. What's more: they use democratic election and the language of democracy in order to undermine it.
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Being detained for arguing with the police?

Last Friday at 11 pm, a friend who I was with received a call from two of her friends who told her they were being taken to the UPJ for having a beer in the Park of the Hippies in Bogotá

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Money and democracy

The revelations of these weeks showed that the campaigns of Santos 2010 and Zuluaga 2014 received concealed funding from Odebrecht, which allowed them to violate the electoral caps.

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Sunflowers and tricks

In 2010, presidential campaign year, candidate Antanas Mockus designed his political proposal based on simple ideas like these: "not everything is fair game" and "public life and resources are sacred."

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Where will the 9 million hectares needed for zidres come from?

Before delivering a considerable part of Colombia to private enterprise, the Government must resolve these five issues.
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The progressive silence on Venezuela

As eloquent as the last OAS report on the extinction of democracy and human rights in Venezuela has been the silence of many progressive Latin American sectors, including human rights organizations.

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Against the “faggots”

"The faggots come and organize right in front of the Church...because being a faggot is...they are faggots, I am sorry but they are faggots...This is what they are." These are the words that Pastor Miguel Arrázola used to speak of journalist Lucio Torres.

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In the country side, life is much harder for women than for men

The progress made in the Peace Agreement on the recognition of the triple discrimination faced by rural women in Colombia cannot be just words and empty promises.
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