I must thank Uribismo for having broached the topic about "civil resistance."

The Policing Code that is currently being debated in Congress restricts a central democratic right: the right to peaceful social protest.

Mr. Solicitor General:

Dictators will try to defeat art that opposes its vision of the world, but the resilience of art is inherent in its nature. Dictators can try to stifle it, imprison it, but history shows that it is impossible to fully wipe out or control art. In the end, you cannot break a butterfly on a wheel.

The step the FARC and the Government took, to define the peace agreement has to be approved by Congress and reviewed by the Constitutional Court to gain legal force, which is very important. But it is insufficient if not accompanied by civic endorsement. 

Seeing all that has happened these last days, it occurs to me that the peace process is going well, but peace is going poorly. 

"Love is what will outlive us," Philip Larking wrote in 1956. The English poet did not know that what will actually outlive us - plastic - was being invented as he composed those verses. 

Statistics are a good antidote to our prejudices. And if they are presented in a pedagogical way, and even in a fun way, they have a greater potential to question them. 

On May 10, 2016, the complete criminalization of abortion ended.