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Trampling on rights by judicial order: the risks of presidential appointments of judges in a personalist era

Since Trump ascended to the seat of Lincoln, political personalism has taken over the most powerful nation in the world.  Now with the selection of the ultraconservative Neil Gorsuch as nominee to the Supreme Court, the politicization of justice is sharpened, and so is the scrutiny of the system to designate judges to the high courts. Read the…

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An impunity accord?

 Many of those who invite others to
vote NO on the plebiscite claim that they are not against negotiated peace, but
that they believe the accord to be unacceptable because of the impunity it 
establishes due to the fact that it does not require jail time
for all those responsible for international crimes like massacres, kidnappings,
disappearances, children recruitment or sexual violence. 

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Pandora’s Box

On security issues, it seems that authorities care more about perception than action. When what matters is what citizens perceive, strategies lend themselves more to the marketing of problems than substantive solutions.

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Sophisticated Lawyers

When we look for those responsable for the judiciary’s crisis, usually the disgraceful ones stick out: the lawyer that says on the record that “ethics have nothing to do with the law,” or his client, the judge that puts this phrase into practice and schemes to drag on the investigation that proceeds against him in Congress.

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A Problematic Letter

The letter signed by the Prosecutor General and the presidents of the High Courts, in which they strongly criticize the reform to the judiciary proposed by the balance of powers bill and call for its failure, has as much good as bad and ugly.

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Teachers’ Pay

In a just society, merit and effort are reflected in a person’s pay for his or her job. This idea is illustrated in a famous quote from Bill Clinton: “if you work hard and don’t break the rules, you can expect the country to give you an opportunity to a decent life and that your kids will have a better life than you did.”

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