Posts Tagged ‘Democracia’
Is Democracy in Brazil at stake?
Following what some consider a coup attempt on January 8, Brazil’s federal powers are taking action against the far right. Will they be able to act decisively without undermining the institutions they defend?
Read MoreControlling the Pandemic, Guaranteeing Rights
Already in various cases, such measures have been used to consolidate governmental power and to weaken the opposition, often using the health crisis as a pretext.
Read MoreA Chain of Inequalities
The decline of redistributive agrarian reforms coupled with growing patterns of land concentration and land-grabbing threaten to exacerbate cycles of inequality in the countryside, in the city, and around the world.
Read MoreTheoretical musings
Perhaps the greatest political challenge that current democracies face is to rescue something of the public and civic virtue that the Greeks discussed, without falling into the different populisms that today offer themselves as saviors of society.
Read MoreIt is time for moderation
If there was an index to measure the rage of countries, Colombia would rank among the first. Today, we see a closer manifestation of the Colombian rage in the electoral debate, which is full of insults.
Read MoreMaduro’s dictatorship
The sudden call for elections by Nicolás Maduro’s government could aggravate the humanitarian situation in Venezuela. In addition, it is another sign that in some countries democracy is weakening, with alarming results.
Read MoreSelfish patriotism
The future of humanity could be on the side of cosmopolitanism, not patriotism, which today seems more a form of collective selfishness than popular democracy.
Read MoreWhy Venezuela is a dictatorship
The dismantling of democracy can be incremental, like it was in Venezuela. First, there was the co-option of the courts, then the persecution of the political opposition, and last year, the suspension of regional elections. And now, with the Constituent Assembly, Maduro leapt into the dark.
Read MoreSatire, slander and democracy
Former President Uribe resorted to a forbidden speech (slander) to attack a speech protected in democracy (satire), which Daniel Samper Ospina uses in his columns.
Read MoreThe luck of prohibition: Bloomsday
The history of art is plagued with censorship. Ulysses, by the Irish author James Joyce, was banned for more than ten years and went to trial three times for being considered obscene.
Read MoreAn immature Constituent Assembly
The Constituent Assembly convened by Maduro does not seek to forge a pact between opposing forces, but seeks to crush the opposition through an antidemocratic mechanism, which is also unconstitutional. The international community and even authentic Chavismo should oppose it.
Read MoreMilitant hope
Hope should not only be cautious but militant: young people around the world should mobilize against politicians like Trump who are willing to damage the world in which they, the young, will live tomorrow.
Read MoreBojayá indigenous people claim their right to vote
Almost 70% of people from Bojayá did not vote on the peace plebiscite. A part of this group was composed by indigenous communities who claim that they were not able to reach the ballot box.
Read MoreEffective Criminal Defense in Latin America
This book analyzes the national and regional standards related to effective criminal defense. It is the result of a joint research project conducted with different organizations including Dejusticia.
Read MoreCase Against Bolivian Ex-President for His Role in 2003 Massacre Can Proceed
A U.S. Appeals Court rejected the attempt by the defendant to throw out the case.
Read MoreColombian Police Ought to Clarify Their Relationship with “Hacking Team”
According to investigations, the Colombian Police allegedly contracted Hacking Team in order to gain access to citizens’ digital information.
Read MoreThe United States Shows that It Is Possible to Build a Path towards Equality
In a pluralist democracy it is discriminatory for a person to be deprived of a right due to their sexual orientation. Today the Supreme Court of the United States legalized same-sex marriage.
Read MoreHuman Rights, Democracy, and Development
Human rights are undergoing a transformation. Around the world debates have proliferated regarding human rights discourses, practices, and studies to the point that some speak about “the end of human rights.” This context is unlike anything since the beginning of the international human rights system around the mid twentieth century.
Read MoreDejusticia and Colombia Diversa Intervened before the Constitutional Court to Ask That Adoption Laws Do Not Exclude Same-Sex Couples
Mauricio Albarracín Caballero, Jaime Ardila Salcedo, Daniel Gómez-Mazo, Alejandro Lanz Sánchez, Olga Patricia Velásques Ocampo, Juan Felipe Rivera Osorio y María Paula Hoyos Sánchez, executive director and members of Colombia Diversa, are also authors of this intervention.
Read MoreDemocracy or plutocracy?
Is the United States becoming aplutocracy? This is a legitimate question, since the influence of money in elections in that country is already overwhelming, and it may continue to increase due to a recent US Supreme Court decision (the McCutcheon case).
Read MoreDemocracy without a People
Abraham Lincoln, in his famous Gettysburg speech, characterized democracy as the government of the people, by the people, and for the people.
Read MoreWho Decides When it Comes to Mining?
Contrary to what the Minister of Mining and the newspaper El Tiempo said, referring to the recent decision of the Constitutional Court, citizens can organize consultations to oppose the effects of mining in their territories,
Read MoreBlank Votes: Who Wins?
The blank vote appears to be a strike against political clientelism. But in reality, at least in the congressional elections this Sunday, it is strike against the public itself, since it favors the clientelist machinery.
Read MoreRequest for annulment of appointment of judges of the National Electoral Council
Dejusticia challenged the appointment of judges of the National Electoral Council by Congress. The challenge presents a unique argument according to which the election is invalid because it was done by secret ballot and not through public voting as provided by the Constitution.
Read MoreIntervention on the constitutionality of the re-election referendum
Intervention in challenge to the constitutionality of the re-election referendum. The intervention requests the Court to declare unconstitutional the law that calls for the aforementioned referendum.
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