GalƔn, Drugs, and Mafias
By Rodrigo Uprimny Yepes |
Juan Manuel GalƔn presented a bill to legalize the use of medicinal marijuana on the 25th year anniversary of his father's assassination.
Read more Political Participation and Post-Conflict
By Nelson Camilo SÔnchez León |
In agreement with what President Juan Manuel Santos has expressed publicly multiple times, one of the primary objectives of the peace process is for the guerrilla members to change "bullets for votes."
Read more The Two Faces of the Past
By Mauricio GarcĆa Villegas |
In the last op-eds I have argued with Eduardo Posada Carbó and other commentators have joined the debate, among them Santiago Montenegro, Ćscar Guardiola, and DarĆo Acevedo.
Read more The Cost of Being a Woman
By Celeste Kauffman |
It is expensive to be a woman in our capitalist and sexist society.
Read more A Country Full of Doctors
By CĆ©sar RodrĆguez-Garavito (Retired in 2019) |
Even though a Mexican came up with it, I have always thought that the classic conversation of Chespirito provides an insightful commentary of the Colombian reality: āHey, Lucas. āTell me, college graduate. āCollege graduate! āThank you, thank you very much!
Read more Humanitarian Crisis to Wait until after Recess
By Dejusticia |
Until appropriate action is taken, child migrants will lie within the purgatory of political inaction in the face of crisis.
Read more White-Skinned Maid Needed
By Ana Margarita GonzƔlez VƔsquez |
The high-profile case of racial discrimination in Cali in which a classified employment ad stated the need for a "white-skinned" female surgical physician brought attention to a common phenomenon in the city with one of the largest afrodescendant populations in the country (27% of Cali's population is afrodescendant according to the last census).
Read more Victims, Pain and Hope
By Rodrigo Uprimny Yepes |
The topic of the victims is one of the most difficult for the peace process, but victims themselves may the best equipped to confront it.
Read more Federalism
By Mauricio GarcĆa Villegas |
Francisco Maturarana's prestige began to decline when, after a soccer match, he said the famous phrase: "we lost, but we won a little bit."
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