How Does the Judiciary Fare in the Balance of Powers Reform?
Congress finally approved the balance of power reforms that ammends the Constitution and includes changes to the state structure.
Read MoreStadiums, Atrocities and Memory
For those of us who were young in the seventies, the American Cup’s final match between Argentina and Chile in the National Stadium of Santiago evokes certain associations between two emblematic stadiums and two terrible dictatorships.
Read MorePeace Remains the Path to Follow
A couple weeks ago I traveled to Florence to give a talk about transitional justice in a workshop series that have a suggestive but ambitious name: “How to Narrate Peace.”
Read MoreFranciscan Environmentalism (II)
I said in the previous op-ed that the new papal encyclical Praise Be To You could infuse the debate about the environmental crisis with some much needed moral impetus.
Read MoreAmong Microfocalization and Other Demons of Land Restitution
I am unsure if the land restitution process is dying or not, but it is undeniable that it progresses slowly and that it is necessary to start planning from now strategies to make it more agile.
Read MoreToo Big to Fail? Not in Latin America
In an unprecedented step, various countries in Latin America are moving forward with trials against high-ranking government officials as citizen movements against corruption strengthen.
Read MoreA Hopeful Advance for Equality
There aren’t many occassions that allow you to have a certain degree of optimism that it is possible to build a freer, more pluralist and just world.
Read MoreI’m Going to Need Some Identification
It is increasingly common to find members of the Police with a cellphone or computer on hand, asking people for their national identification to “run a background check.”
Read MoreFranciscan Environmentalism
Reading the new papal encyclical Praise Be To You, it is clear that Francisco I seeks for climate change what Leon XIII acomplished in Rights and Duties of Capital and Labor, the social issue at the turn of the nineteenth century.
Read MoreThe Borges’ Encyclopedia of the Balance of Power Reform
Beyond if what lawmakers have approved in the balance of powers reform is good or bad, it teaches us a lesson on how not to do a constitutional reform in the future.
Read MoreThe FARC and humanitarian law
At the time when the debate on the legal framework for peace is at height, the FARC have helped with their actions to make it difficult to even consider a possible scenario of politically negotiating the armed conflict.
Read MoreThe political reform of the justice reform
Instead of addressing the underlying problems in the justice reform has focused on the legal problems of the Congress. Some of these changes are legitimate, but others are doubtful, or are just monkeys. A rigorous and comprehensive assessment of the reforms for Congress.
Read MoreThe incredible and sad life of the Disciplinary Chamber
This seems to be the beginning of the end of the infamous Disciplinary Chmaber, perhaps the least presentable body of the Colombian judiciary.
Read MoreCartagena is passion
It is unbelievable the outrage created by the bad international press Cartagena received due to the “sexygate” of Obama’s bodyguards.
Read MoreThe elbow of the MANE?
The lack of clarity of the MANE against the use of violence as a form of struggle is problematic and could be a boomerang for the movement itself.
Read MoreTo the memory of a ‘leveller’: Juan Fernando Jaramillo
The premature death of Juan Fernando Jaramillo, founder of Dejusticia, colleague from the Universidad Nacional and the Constitutional Court, and close friend, leaves a void difficult to fill, because we lost a remarkable scholar, a just judge, and a great teacher. But most of all we lost an exceptional person.
Read MoreReleive in the Incoder: new air and last sighs
The outgoing director was a scapegoat to hide the lack of concrete progress on the flagship program of the President: return two million hectares to victims. A balance of the inherited problems and challenges that the incoming director and the government as a whole face.
Read MoreJuan Fernando Jaramillo, an intellectual who knew how to laugh
Founding member of Dejusticia, died last Thursday.
Read MoreThe government’ contradictions in Lleras Act 2.0
The prohibition of retransmission is a more difficult by all involved Lleras 2.0 Act in the era of information.
Read MoreIs Act Lleras 2.0 unconstitutional?
After the feast of the Cartagena Summit, comes the hangover.
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