We have to insist that no drug user should be treated as a criminal and that the majority is far the dominant stereotype. 

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By now you have likely heard of the Panama Papers. Leaked to the German newspaper Süddeutsche Zeitung by an anonymous source, the Papers include over 11.5 million records from the files of Mossack Fonseca, a Panamanian law firm that helped politicians, drug dealers, athletes, businessmen, and other rich clients hide wealth and evade taxes through offshore shell companies, investment funds, and tax havens.

This is the name of the book that the National University will launch April 28th and that compiles some of the best constitutional law texts written by Juan Jaramillo, our dear friend and Dejusticia and university colleague, who passed away too soon four years ago.

In Colombia there exists a an old political culture that, trying to avoid tyranny, became negligent with anarchy. This has made more difficult the construction of an efficient state with enough administrative capacity to enforce the law. Let me explain myself.

Three weeks ago I wrote that 33 children below the age of five had starved to death this year in Colombia.

Our high courts have a very low representation of women and there is no institutional effort to reverse this tendency, which makes the head of the judiciary a space mainly composed of men.  

Until a couple weeks ago, I had not heard of the narco-corridors of Colombia.

The FBI lost the security battle against Apple, which refused to breach the privacy of a terrorist's cellphone, but in the digital age everyday new risks emerge. 

The Finnish educational model is an ideal system. However for other systems to move close to it, institutional changes do not suffice, material and cultural conditions must be addressed.