Cultural and economic pincher
Danilo Rojas warns of the dangers that rest on the independence of culture and art, regularly tied to dictations of economic groups.
Read MoreReturn to the Past
The two weeks of violence that France has experienced shows that discrimination by social class is not a phenomenon of the Old Regime, but of the present.
Read MoreIn the name of Democracy
Rodrigo Uprimny states that the double take on the Law Court, with its enormous suffering, should teach us the danger of supporting an unlimited defense of institutions.
Read MoreCondemned by the Holocaust to give $10,000 million
In several sentences it is indicated that the State failed in an operation to recover the Palace. Nevertheless, in the penal and disciplinary system no one is condemned.
Read MoreLesson from the Law Courts to the course against the United Self-Defense Forces of Colombia
The Palace of Justice siege was a 1985 attack against the Supreme Court of Colombia, in which members of an M-19 guerilla group held Supreme Court Justices hostage. This event continues to be the starting point of many legal and political studies. The present situation shows that the principle political event is the process of demobilization of the paramilitary as a possible niche of analysis.
Read MoreHostages of yesterday and today
Speaking of 20 years of horror with the Law Courts, Mauricio García Villegas, investigator of Dejusticia, reflects on the inflexible hand of the State to negotiate the freedom of hostages.
Read MoreIs there Hope in Judicial Activism on Social Rights?
Re-election: Judgment of the Court?
Although the Court was declared constitutional in the re-election, the debate remains open, since President Uribe cannot be a candidate while statutory law of electoral guarantees does not exist, affrims Rodrigo Uprimny of Dejusticia
Read MoreIs Colombia racist?
César Rodríguez maintains that, contrary to what the newspapers say, history and statistics show that Colombia is a racist country.
Read MoreThe land of displaced persons
Mauricio García Villegas, of Dejusticia, warns of the risk of the government bill to legalize property titles over land that ultimately benefits the mafia and paramilitary and not its victims.
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