Posts Tagged ‘Elección’
Antioquia’s Future
I don’t usually express sympathy in this op-ed for a specific political candidate or party.
Read MoreCompulsory Voting without Democracy?
Given that Colombia has been a country historically afflicted with low electoral turn-out, each election cycle commentators argue in favor and against compulsory voting.
Read MoreThree Lessons from the Elections
With Santos, the mandate for peace, democracy and hope rose to victory. Since mandates must be fulfilled and hope easily turns into disappointment, the goverment has just a short period of time to extract the lessons from the election and begin to make changes.
Read MoreThe Other “Paisa” Country
In the last electoral round, Óscar Iván Zuluaga won in almost every territory from Cartagena to Caucasia and from the central mountain range to the top of the western mountain range.
Read MoreFive Decisive Differences
There are at least five differences that separate the republican right of Santos and the extreme right of Uribe. The first one, is the peace process.
Read MoreThe Lesser Evil
In his opinion piece last Sunday, William Ospina said that if he had to choose between two evils, Santos and Zuluaga, he prefers Zuluaga because he is the lesser evil.
Read MoreYes or No to Peace? But What about Health Care?
We have all lived and suffered through the disproportionate focus on the topic of peace in the debates as the only and most important difference between the candidates. Little has been said about other substantive topics, like health care, education or the environment that are as vital as peace and in the end help realize it.
Read MoreWho to Vote Against (II)
The presidential elections will be decided by undecided voters: the abstainers who doubt whether or not to leave their homes on June 15th, those who voted blank in the first round, the independents who voted for Peñalosa, the people on the Left who were left without a candidate and the conservatives respectful of the law who, with good reason, hesitate in following Marta Lucia jump toward Uribism.
Read MoreThe Ethics of Responsiblity
In an interview published in this newspaper, Senator Jorge Robledo reiterated his idea that Santos, Zuluaga and Uribe are the same thing, and insinuated that to maintain ideological coherence and defend his principles, he will not vote for any of them.
Read MoreImperfect Peace or Perpetual War?
These presidential elections went from being boring to being decisive. The peace process is one of its most crucial and divisive topics, not just because its outcome will profoundly effect our future as a nation, but because the candidates have opposing views about it.
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 MoreFrom the Ethical to the Ethnic
How did the political class take over the seats reserved for Afro-Colombians in Congress?
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 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 MoreThe Electoral Debate on Drugs
Congressional candidates have broken the taboo. For the first time the debate about drugs and their regulation has taken hold of the campaigns in Colombia.
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 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.
Read MoreAnd they refounded the homeland… On how the mafia and politicians reconfigured the Colombian State
This publication discusses the implications of the capture of the Colombian State by illegal armed groups.
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.
Read MoreMajorities without Democracy: Power Imbalances and the Rule of Law in Colombia
The theme of presidential reelection has been present, with brief interruptions, in the headlines of the national press since 2004. A lot has been said, discussed and analyzed in favor and against reelection during this period. The main point of contention lies in the conception of democracy.
Read MoreElectoral Code
Public action of unconstitutionality against articles 10 and 102 in their entirety and partially against articles 12, 26, 32, 40, 47, 75, 79, 85, 101, 149 & 157 of Decree 2241 of 1986 (Colombian Electoral Code).
Read MoreLimits to Freedom of Expression: Patriotic Union
Dejusticia filed an amicus in the tutela action against Dr. Fabio Echeverri Correa, manager of the re-election campaign for Presidential Candidate Álvaro Uribe Vélez, for violating the fundamental rights of honor and good name, physical integrity and life.
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