NEXT MONDAY, the 20 years of the 1991 Constitution will be celebrated.

Now that President Santos' first year of legislature has ended and many rules have been voted and promulgated, perhaps it is worth asking one of the oldest and most fundamental questions of law and power theory: what makes people obey the law?

This week the tensions between President Uribe and former President Santos heightened. According to the media, what caused the deterioration were Uribe's statements to the newspaper La Tarde of Pereira, where he said that the present Government wanted to pass him off as corrupt.

MANY HAVE praised this week the 1991 Constitution on the eve of the celebration of the twenty years after its promulgation. This should not make us forget, however, that in Colombia there are people who oppose the Constitution.

I HAVE NOT READ "THE WITCH", OF CASTRO Caicedo, nor have I seen the TV series based on his book, but I know Fredonia, the town in Antioquia where the events occurred and I also know the story of Jaime Builes, the protagonist of the story.

The following is a response to the letter sent by Senator Gilma Jiménez in relation to this blog entry published last week titled "Legal Populism".

THE WORLD DID NOT END THE PAST 21st of May, as claimed by the pastor Harold Camping. Many were glad that this prediction did not happen, not because they thought it might be true, but because it was an opportunity to refute the evangelical pastor. "One apocalyptic charlatan less", a friend told me on May 22, convinced that in future those faithful of Camping would stop going to go to his church.

REGARDING THE corruption scandal in the health system, Alejandro Gaviria, in his column last week, called attention on the futility of moral complaints: rants on the pervasiveness of "quickwitted" or on our moral impairment are useless, he says.

The fight against crime should not be made through righteous crusades to feed our thirst for revenge, but through a balanced, reasonable, and effective criminal justice policy.