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DEMANDS OF REELECTION IN COLOMBIA |
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Since mid-2003, well-known Congress members who support President Uribe Velez in his political project have been announcing their decision of reforming the Constitution so that they can be re-elected. At the beginning of the first legislature 2003-2004, the project was submitted and voted on negatively at the First Commission of the Senate… |
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REELECTION IN COLOMBIA IS UNCONSTITUCIONAL: CONCEPTS OF THE GENERAL SPECIAL PROSECUTOR |
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The constitutional nature of the reform that would allow for presidential re-election has triggered several debates, and has been recently inflamed by the Prosecutor when making his opinion on such topic public. This article explains the contents and scope of such statement. |
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CIVIL SOCIETY
ORGANIZATIONS DURING THE TRANSITION |
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Once
the long-awaited period of political alternance
arrived – something that will probably trigger a
series of changes – the actors who drove the
effort, civil organizations among them, have the
pressing need to analyze what the perspectives
are, both of the democratization process as well
as of the role that they should or could play in
the new political situation of the country… |
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We need to protect democracy |
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On
August 15, a presidential revocatory referendum will
be held in Venezuela amidst an endless conflict. We
are trapped in a huge institutional weakness
including those in...
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Colombia today: the political crisis |
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From a
formal standpoint, the Colombian political
institutions are the most stable ones in the
region. In the past 150 years there has only been
a single military coup, or an “opinion coup” as it
is euphemistically called in the dominating
circles... |
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