One time I found myself with a foreign colleague that moved to Colombia. I asked how he was doing and he said he was doing very well, that he loved traveling through the country and enjoy the diversity of climates, fruits, and landscapes.

The magic of prison is to create the illusion of resolving problems, when it simply hides or postpones them. It's the form of sweeping under the rug our incapacity to deal with our issues: prison for those who discriminate, for drunk drivers, for young people who use drugs.

Last week there were newstories about two cases that involved high-level public servants.

I was convinced that the charismatic Pope Francis was doubly infallible. First for being Pope, as according to the First Vatican Council of 1870, the Supreme Pontiff does not make mistakes, at least when his declarations have benefited from the assistance of the Holy Spirit. And second for being an Argentine... well at least Argentines seem to think that makes you infallible.

Jules Jouy, a nineteenth century Frenchman, said that there were three types of judges: those that decide standing, those that decide sitting in their chairs, and those that decide laying face down. 

If war, according to Clausewitz, is the continuation of politics by other means, then human rights are the limit of both politics and war.

It is fundamental that everything in the judiciary, from the investigation by the Prosecutor's Office to the sentence at Court, not be neutral in terms of gender.