Posts Tagged ‘Democracy’
Sunflowers and tricks
In 2010, presidential campaign year, candidate Antanas Mockus designed his political proposal based on simple ideas like these: “not everything is fair game” and “public life and resources are sacred.”
Read MoreTrump and the future of human rights
Donald Trump’s presidency creates serious risks and challenges for human rights globally, but this victory could have an unexpected positive effect: to push the human rights movement to carry out transformations in its architecture and changes in its strategy that were imperative even before Trump, and that are now urgent.
Read MoreNew agreement and disagreement
Accounting for the proportions, the equivalent to the construction of an avenue in a few days that later completely collapsed in Japan was for us the discussion and agreement of the peace accord in Havana.
Read MoreThe bubble that Trump popped
It is time to
escape the bubble that popped with Trump’s victory. It would be more comforting
to think that millions of voters were tricked by a professional of contraption,
as it was less painful for many to conclude that the results of Bexit or the
Colombian plebiscite on peace were just tricks of the winning campaign so that
people voted with anger.
We need more, not less democracy
Many have criticized the government’s decision to call a plebiscite on October 2nd. Popular ratification was not judicially necessary. Even some, like Montealegre or Ferrajoli, claim that it was judicially questionable. For these reasons, several, including the president, have suggested that eventually, a new accord should not be subject to a popular referendum.
Read MoreBogotá: The Capital of Sexual Diversity
Some accuse the left of all the evils of Bogotá and harken back to the golden age of Peñalosa as the paradise to which we should return.
Read MoreAntioquia’s Future
I don’t usually express sympathy in this op-ed for a specific political candidate or party.
Read MoreLetter from Jamaica
Bolivar’s call in the letter from Jamaica has passed 200 years relatively unnoticed in Colombia.
Read MoreThe Imaginary Country
Colombians tend to find refuge in imagination in order to ignore the hardness of our social life.
Read MoreGreece and Legacies of Violence
What if we considered these problems not simply as a threat to a notion of peace undergirding the European project, but also as part and parcel of that project’s related legacy of violence?
Read MoreRevoking the Removal from Office
Unless a “tutela” writ or an interim measure by the Inter-American Commission overturn the effects of his decision, the Inspector General is likely to affirm Mayor Petro’s removal from office.
Read MoreThe Year of Hope for Peace
For those of us who were born in the 80’s, hope is almost an unknown feeling. We know that it is like an abstract idea, since we hear it from the mouth of leaders who fought against the violence. But back then the idea was not only never put in practice, it was also used to aggressively repress those who dared proclaim it.
Read MoreJustice and State Legitimacy
In “The City of God”, San Agustin tells the story of how Alejandro Magno captured a pirate and asked him why he robbed in the seas.
Read MoreKirchner’s “nac&pop” project
Cristina Kirchner’s government illustrates the risks that populism has for democracy without offering any of its advantage in exchange.
Read MoreSearching for the Leader of the Year
2013 is ending. It is time to recap the year´s events. Media organizations are making their lists of the best and worst of the year in opinion pieces and articles.
Read MoreEnvironmental Democracy
While the Inspector General ignores the popular vote in Bogotá, in the rest of the country local democracy is flourishing. Last Sunday was Tauremena’s turn (in Casanare), where they voted against petroleum projects that put the municipalities water sources at risk.
Read MoreWith Three Articles
It is possible to limit the greater institutional risks of the Inspector General’s Office and the worst personal excesses of Inspector General Ordóñez without changing the Constitution; we just need a short law with three articles.
Read MoreRe-election, Peace and Democracy
A closer look at the dates when high-level government officials will be chosen reveals the enormous concentration of power that the re-election of President Santos could bring. The balance of power must be re-established and there are concrete ways of accomplishing this.
Read MoreThe 25th Anniversary of the Comission of Colombian Jurists
The CCJ is the Comission of Colombian Jurists, one of the most important and respected organization of human rights in Latin America. Last thursday it celebrated 25 years of admirable and unstoppable work for democracy and rights in Colombia.
Read MoreIn Search of a United, Yet Institutionalized Left
Ivan Cepeda’s proposal of creating a broad alliance with a presidential candidate and a roster of congressional candidates is the Left´s best bet, not only for it’s future, but for the country.
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