From the speach to the dialog
By Mauricio García Villegas |
Las thursday, in Oslo, the negotiations between the Farc and the Government began. The first one to speak was the spokesman of the Government, Humberto de la Calle.
Read more Learning to govern
By Mauricio García Villegas |
Each political group likes to talk about what it knows. The left talks about social rights, political participation and human rights, among others. The right, on the other hand, loves talking about security, moral, culture, business, etc.
Read more Independent catholics
By Mauricio García Villegas |
Nicolás Boileau, a french writer of the XVII century, used to say that every protestant was a pope when he had a Bible in his hands. This sentence well reflects the luteran idel of liberating believers from the ecclesiastical hierarchies and of reducing the religious to God, the scriptures and grace.
Read more Dangerous populations
By Mauricio García Villegas |
One of the most hateful practices of the authoritarian regimes it of punishing someone for the simple fat of belonging to a social group considered dangerous for the regime. Students in military dictatorships, homosexuals in islamic theocracies or the black in the Apartheid are only some of the most visible examples. This practice is founded in an ideology that is known as penal peligrosism, prescribed since the beginnings of the XIXth century, but that we are still far away from having banished from the occidental democracies, as the social composition of the prison population shows.
Here, I want to speak about about a type of peligrosism that is rarely mentioned, but that still persists and progresses. I mean the discriminatory way how countries treat immigrants when they enter and leave their frontiers.
Read more Words and violence
By Mauricio García Villegas |
Fernando Savater once said that wars live over all on words and that, therefore, adding words to war is like adding fuel to the fire.
Read more ¿Me? ¿A fundamentalist?
By Mauricio García Villegas |
In his last column, "The law of the funnel", Salud Hernández says that those who criticize the Prosecuter are religious fundamentalists that stand for a sacred model of society. Hernández acuses them of commiting the same sin that they denounce (intolerance) but without listening to their arguments.
Read more The problem is not about faith
By Mauricio García Villegas |
A great controversy has been unleashed by a decision of the Constitutional Court that oblies the Prosecuter's Office to rectify false medical informations and biased judicial interpretations in relation with the subject of abortion.
Read more Family fights
By Mauricio García Villegas |
It is foten spoken from the friends and the enemies of peace, as if they were two groups clearly distinguished between them. However the talks with the subversive give raise to a more complex debate.
Read more Our two wars
By Mauricio García Villegas |
In Colombia not one war, but two wars take place: the first one si against subversion and the second one against ilegal drugs. The promoters of these two wars, even though they insist in continue waging these wars, have failed.
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