{"id":26061,"date":"2008-08-22T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2008-08-22T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.dejusticia.org\/defending-who\/"},"modified":"2017-04-11T07:26:53","modified_gmt":"2017-04-11T12:26:53","slug":"defending-who","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.dejusticia.org\/en\/defending-who\/","title":{"rendered":"Defending Who?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>EN LOS ESTUDIOS SOBRE JUSTICIA se suele hacer la diferencia entre la justicia protag\u00f3nica \u2014la de los casos judiciales m\u00e1s visibles y de mayor impacto, como la parapol\u00edtica\u2014 y la justicia rutinaria, que resuelve los conflictos propios de la gente del com\u00fan, como robos o divorcios<\/p>\n<p>En Colombia se habla mucho de la primera, de la protag\u00f3nica, y muy poco de la segunda. La justicia rutinaria es opaca y desconocida y en las zonas en donde existe conflicto armado \u2014la mitad del pa\u00eds\u2014 pr\u00e1cticamente no existe.<br \/>\nCon la Defensor\u00eda del Pueblo pasa lo contrario. En las regiones apartadas y de conflicto, donde el Estado es precario o inexistente, los defensores del pueblo regionales cumplen una labor importante. Lo que no funciona bien es la defensor\u00eda protag\u00f3nica, es decir, el amparo p\u00fablico y visible que el Defensor del Pueblo debe hacer de las grandes causas humanitarias del pa\u00eds. No es que no funcione bien, es que no existe y no existe porque esa labor le ha sido asignada a V\u00f3lmar P\u00e9rez, quien por razones de car\u00e1cter, o por compromisos pol\u00edticos, o por ambas cosas, ha preferido quedarse callado.<br \/>\nNadie podr\u00e1 decir que V\u00f3lmar P\u00e9rez no tuvo motivos para salir a denunciar atropellos contra los derechos humanos. Los habr\u00eda tenido si fuera defensor del pueblo en, digamos, Finlandia. Pero es defensor del pueblo en Colombia, un pa\u00eds en donde en los \u00faltimos cinco a\u00f1os \u2014los mismos que le han correspondido como defensor\u2014 m\u00e1s de diez mil personas murieron por causas asociadas a la violencia pol\u00edtica. De esos diez mil, la mitad perecieron por fuera de combate, hubo m\u00e1s de mil desaparecidos y setecientos eran ni\u00f1os. La responsabilidad de m\u00e1s de la mitad de estos cr\u00edmenes se atribuye a agentes del Estado, por acci\u00f3n directa, o por tolerancia con las fuerzas paramilitares. Nada de esto motiv\u00f3 una intervenci\u00f3n enf\u00e1tica del Defensor. Tampoco lo hizo cuando extraditaron a los paramilitares, ni cuando el Gobierno utiliz\u00f3 indebidamente el s\u00edmbolo de la Cruz Roja para liberar a \u00cdngrid, ni cuando se debati\u00f3 la Ley de Justicia y Paz, ni cuando el Gobierno ha atacado a los jueces\u2026 y la lista de abstenciones es interminable.<br \/>\nEl Defensor del Pueblo es un funcionario muy particular. Su labor consiste en recibir denuncias de la gente por violaciones a los derechos humanos, pero no tiene poder para sancionar a nadie, ni para  imponer pol\u00edticas p\u00fablicas. Lo \u00fanico que puede hacer es utilizar la alta investidura que tiene para denunciar las injusticias que se cometen contra la gente. Su poder radica en su persona y en lo que dice; en su credibilidad moral y en la imparcialidad pol\u00edtica de sus denuncias. Es por eso que un defensor puede tener mucho poder e influencia, como en su momento los tuvo Eduardo Cifuentes, o ninguno, como sucede en la actualidad.<br \/>\nPero nada de esto es responsabilidad de V\u00f3lmar P\u00e9rez, quien fue puesto en ese cargo por el Gobierno \u2014con una m\u00e1s de sus \u201cternas de uno\u201d\u2014 para que cumpliera justamente la labor rutinaria e inocua que viene cumpliendo. Desde la renuncia de Cifuentes, el Gobierno era consciente de que necesitaba silenciar esa oficina con un funcionario opaco e insubstancial, cuidadosamente seleccionado de entre los candidatos del roscograma presidencial. As\u00ed lo hizo y as\u00ed lo acaba de repetir el martes pasado \u2014con una terna igualmente insulsa\u2014 para beneficio del Gobierno y para congoja de las v\u00edctimas de este pa\u00eds.<br \/>\nAhora que el presidente Uribe tiene garantizada la trivialidad de la justicia ordinaria y de la Defensor\u00eda, s\u00f3lo le queda acabar con el protagonismo de la Corte Suprema.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In studies about justice, usually there is made a differentiation between the most visible justice \u2013 which is the judicial cases of major impact as parapolitics \u2013 and the routine justice, that decides over the judicial cases of the common people such as robberies and divorces. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1022],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26061","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","medium-el-espectador-en","post-scope-aaa-not-blog"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v25.9 (Yoast SEO v25.9) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Defending Who? 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