The Constitutional Court will take a crucial decision next week: if Congress' endorsement of the new peace accord is or not sufficient to activate the so-called fast track. 

Shouldn't consumers know how many hundreds of liters of water are used throughout the production chain of a liter of soda?

This week gave us a crude sample of the violence that inhabits us. The FARC, number one social enemy, did not kill, did not kidnap and did not take hostage any town in recent days. They were doing a mannequin challenge. 

The horrific murder of indigenous girl Yuliana Samboní, probably committed by Rafale Uribe, a member of Bogota's elite, provokes pain, indignation and anger. Thus, it is healthy that there was a spontaneous reaction of citizens to demand punishment. And it is understandable that some ask for extreme sentences, like life sentence, for these atrocities.

Mexico was shocked by the recent murder of the judge Vicente Bermúdez, which took place in public, in the middle of the day. Bermúdez was known for adopting judicial decisions in cases against organized crime, like the ones related to Joaquín Guzmán Loera and the disappearance of the 43 students of Ayotzinapa. Unfortunately, it is not the only case of an assassinated judge in Mexico, nor it is the only country in the region where something like this has happened.

Trump's electoral victory is anticlimatic in two ways, as I explained in another op-ed for Semana Sostenible. 

In the Case of the Kaliña and Lokono Peoples v. Suriname, decided in November, 2015, the Inter-American Court relied on the GPs and other international instruments in order to determine whether Suriname had violated its obligations under the American Convention. This event, while seemingly small, increases the legitimacy of the GPs as international norms.

The government has strived to keep discussions on the Peace Accord and tax reform separate: it says that with or without an agreement, reform is needed to fill the huge fiscal gap left by falling oil and other natural resource prices.