Danilo Rojas, investigator of Dejusticia, explores the diverse excuses used to justify the impunity in the processes of peace.

César Rodríguez defends the decision by the Colombian Constitutional Court to leave the tax reform that extends the VAT (GST) to the family basket alone.

In September 2003, a project called “Strengthening of the Constitutional Justice in Ecuador” was created by the First Ecuadorian Congress of Legal Anthropology and Legal Pluralism to further the force of multiculturalism. The objective of this project was to contribute to the analysis and reflection of the coexistence of the indigenous law and the communal law in Ecuador. The presentations addressed by the project are complied in this book.

The constitutionalist, Mauricio García Villegas, analyzes the reaction of economists after the recent opinion by the Constitutional Court about the system of pension transactions and he concludes that they only value legal security when it benefits the businessmen. Forum with the readers.

After reflecting on multiculturalism and constitutional law in Latin America, the author does a systematic study of the most important opinions of the Colombian Constitutional Court on the rights of the indigenous people, with the aim of showing the most reasonable criteria found in such opinions that can be used to solve conflicts in a multicultural state.

The Preambles to the Latin American Constitutions (Madrid 2001). In this article, the author looks to achieve an approximation of the preamble to the letter from 1991 from a neo-constitutional perspective. The article is composed of two separate but complementary parts. In the first part, the author studies the origin of the preamble in the National Constitutional Assembly. In the second part, the author analyzes the contents, importance and value of the preamble and the most relevant jurisprudence in the Constitutional Court in respect to each of its parts.