Serious Decisions Denounced Against Democracy in Colombia (Image by Fiscalía Colombia on twitter)
Control bodies, such as the Attorney General’s Office, the Ombudsman’s Office and the Prosecutor General’s Office, all of which are now headed by officials of the government coalition, have taken two decisions that go against democracy and the Human Rights Protection Measurement System.
By: Zenaida Espinosa Cabrera
Political analyst Ariel Ávila announced this week that the government and the control bodies, such as the Attorney General’s Office, the Ombudsman’s Office and the Prosecutor General’s Office, all headed by officials of the coalition government, have taken two decisions that go against democracy and the Human Rights Protection Measurement System:
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Followed by her government-assigned bodyguard, community leader Luz Nelly Santana, right, attends a meeting with other leaders who like her have received death threats in Bogota, Colombia, Thursday, Dec. 17, 2020. Santana, who runs an organization that helps community leaders fleeing violence to settle in Bogota, is one of the thousands of activists assigned some sort of government protection. (AP Photo/Fernando Vergara)
BOGOTA – Just taking a walk in the streets of Colombia’s capital can feel dangerous for Luz Nelly Santana.
January 13, 2021
The true story of José Guillermo “El Ñeñe” Hernández would have to be set to accordion music. Not some overproduced pop crossover, either. This would-be classic vallenato, live composition, an all-out
parranda, three maybe four days straight, on one of the coastal estates the cops raided, or perhaps one they still don’t know about. There would be prize women and prize cattle and enough contraband whiskey to capsize the
. Important men in woven hats and fine linen shirts would trade favors and bawdy jokes and shout the slurred lyrics to stanzas too dangerous to ever be recited in public.