Darker Than Neymar
By César Rodríguez-Garavito (Retired in 2019) |
When a reporter asked Neymar if he had been discriminated against based on his skin color he replied, "Never, neither on nor off the playing field. Because I'm not Black, right?"
Read more How Fracking and the Shale Gas Revolution Undermine Green Energy Development
By Celeste Kauffman |
The global South should avoid being drawn away from green clean energy sources by the false promises of natural gas and fracking.
Read more The Rule of Law Solely Justifies the Lawsuit against the Inspector General’s Reelection
By Rodrigo Uprimny Yepes |
Some pundits, especially via twitter, have argued that the real reason that Dejusticia, as an institution, and I, personally, have filed this lawsuit against, alongside other organizations, the reelection of the Inspector General Ordóñez is because Dejusticia would have had annual contracts totaling 700 million Colombian pesos (350,000 USD) with Inspector General Maya, which would have been eliminated by Ordóñez.
Read more A Luther for Football?
By Rodrigo Uprimny Yepes |
Could it be that football needs some sort of Luther-like figure that can try to reform and above all make more ethical the Papacy of FIFA, even at the risk that it could lead to a veritable football schism? It's a metaphor worth exploring.
Read more The Military Service Registration Certificate and the High School Diploma
By Mauricio García Villegas |
Every year I spend a few days in the Aguadas (Caldas) municipality, in a small village called Salineros located on the peak of a mountain; it provides, to my knowledge, the best view of the Central mountain range.
Read more It’s Time for Transparency
By Vivian Newman Pont |
In Havana peace negotiations make progress while in Colombia there is no ceasefire.
Read more Prison for Protecting the Land
By Carlos Andrés Baquero Díaz |
“Other indigenous communities in Peru, in similar cases regarding the protection of their land, are afraid to protest because the ghost of the Baguazo is always there.”
Read more The Internal Morality of Football
By Rodrigo Uprimny Yepes |
Is there a morality in football and, if so, could it serve as a source of moral teachings?
Read more Homeland, God and Football
By Mauricio García Villegas |
The Romanian poet Lucian Blaga once said: "after having discovered that life is without meaning, what we are left with is to give it one."
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