Norms and compliance: The double line
The culture of the contempt for the law is not only the product of vivacity; at times it is the result of poorly made norms.
Read MoreWho to watch?
Danilo Rojas of Dejusticia suggests that in the next regional elections insure good political control and technician of the chosen rulers.
Read MoreJosé Obdulio Gaviria and Profesor Óscar Mejía: Every war begins with words
I don’t believe as José Obdulio does that all sins begin as thoughts, but I do believe that all wars begin with words.
Read MoreSins of thought
Rodrigo Uprimny, director of Dejusticia, indicates the risks of an unfounded attack of José Obdulio Gaviria against Óscar Mejía, a professor at the National University.
Read MoreA shortlist of One
César Rodríguez of Dejusticia, maintains that the “shortlist of one” of the government to the Constitutional Court is a trick that will be very expensive to the Colombian democracy.
Read MoreThe heroes of Bavaria: A questionable commercial break
My reproach against this advertising, according to which working and rural “heroes” deserve a beer at the end of the day, is not a moral reproach but rather an argument of public politics.
Read MoreThe necessity of public debate
Helena Alviar and Isabel Cristina Jaramillo propose more participation of civil society in the election of judges to the Constitutional Court.
Read MoreInternal democracy of the parties?
Juan Fernando Jaramillo, member of Dejusticia and professor at the National University, expresses that in spite of the 2003 political reform, little has advanced in the internal democratization of the Colombian political parties.
Read MoreHear the Victims
Maria Paula Saffon, of DeJuSticia, maintains that the recently discovered events that have occurred in the Law Courts should serve as a lesson to listen to the victims rather than stigmatize them.
Read MoreSedition and political slants
To give the paramilitary a character of political delinquents, in which various sectors close to the government insist, is to continue with an obliging attitude.
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