The Constitutional Reform proposal that aims to expand the military's court jurisdiction, driven by the Government and supported by almost all political forces, probably would imply that many of the so-called false positives, which today the civilian judiciary processes, will pass to the military, with huge risk that they remain in impunity.

The Saber exam results 11 disclosures in the past weeks are not very encouraging.

Earlier I wrote that the environmental policies of the Colombian government are schizophrenic: while it promises at the UN to end deforestation in the Amazon rainforest in 2020, it announces that it will open the region to mining in 2022; a few months after committing to the OECD's environmental recommendations, it approves "express licenses" that contradicts them.

After the discovery of the toilet paper cartel last week, it is easier to distrust and question the pricing behavior of other sectors in Colombia.

The Afrocaucana women's mobilization exposes a conflict in which legal and illegal actors vie for natural resources in the ancestral lands of ethnic groups.

Regional governments should start by accepting the existence of racism, and reject that because of the mestizo character of the population we do not have problems of racism

This is the title of Professor Owen Fiss' well-known article which shows that judicial independence (IJ) is complex as it has at least thee dimensions, which are essential to consider separately in order to avoid the erroneous conclusion that democratic IJ should be absolute.

In one of the most difficult moments of the French Revolution (September 1793), when Robespierre feared that his political project would topple, the revolutionary government promulgated a law that identified suspects as "all those who due to their behavior, relationships, intent, or writings, reveal themselves in favor of federalism and as enemies of liberty."

Perhaps there is no story more encouraging for human rights than that of the LGBTI movement in the last decade.