Tag: justice system
Colombia to seek major justice overhaul through popular vote
Colombia’s government is set to call a referendum in March of next year to approve a raft of...
Open letter to President Santos from the son of a Palace of Justice siege victim
To the authorities of the Republic of Colombia, My name is Juan Francisco Lanao. When I was 18...
Santos’ outgoing State of the Union address: plenty still to be done in 2nd term
In his last accountability session before the end of his first term in office, Colombia’s...
Colombia’s paramilitaries will walk out of prison guilt-free
“Without a sentence, no one is considered guilty. Those who have not been declared guilty must be declared innocent.” As Colombia approaches the other end of the Justice and Peace process, the lack of successful trials casts a...
Colombian high court opposes judicial reform
The Colombian high court decided Wednesday that proposed judicial reforms threaten the autonomy and governance powers of the justice system, and fail to address its needs. The 30 judges of the State Council, Colombia’s...
Forced disappearance on the rise in Colombia: NGO
Colombia still has one of the highest rates of forced disappearances in Latin America and the situation continues to worsen, according to Washington based non-governmental organization the Council on Hemispheric Affairs (COHA)....
Santos must retract ‘rotten apples’ comment regarding judiciary: Court
The Bucaramanga Superior Court in northern Colombia has given President Juan Manuel Santos 48 hours to retract a statement in which he claimed that there are some “rotten apples” in the judiciary. The comment was an...
