About 15 years ago, the national government passed a law regulating the prior consultation process without, ironically, consulting the ethnic communities first.

May the better side win.

The dream of any leader is that the people obey what they say word by word. When Napolean Bonaparte issued the Civil Code of 1804 he did not want anyone interpreting his laws, he only wanted people to obey them.

Carl Von Clausewitz once said that war is the continuation of politics through other means. Many Colombians think that something similar happened with the law here; that is, the the legal debates are a continuations of politics by other means. At least that appears to be the opinion of the 73 percent of residents of Bogota who believe the removal of their mayor Petro from office was unjust.

For the last 7 years, Paraguay has failed to comply with the Inter-American Court of Human Rights' decision ordering land titles for their ancestral land to be granted to the Sawhoyamaxa indigenous community.

While many celebrate Colombia´s World Cup classification, the indigenous people have been marching in protest for over a week.

Oil exploitation in Ecuador and the enlargement of a park in Colombia show the contrast in visions on the Amazon.

"After a public hearing convened by the Constitutional Court about the Legal Framework for Peace, the Kaleidoscope Team interviewed Luz María Sánchez Duque, researcher from the Center for the Study of Law, Justice, and Society (Dejusticia)."

Mister "Rayón" is a curious character that appeared this semester in the Bogotá campus of Universidad Nacional de Colombia. Dressed as a superhero and wearing a gas mask, his mission consisted in modifying the serious and conservative revolutionary graffiti filling the walls of the so-called "White City".