The case of one transgendered individual’s ordeal to gain the right to undergo the surgical procedures necessary to realize her identity has been influential in a recent court case.

Although a negative experience led Javier Estrada Tobar to seek medical services in a private clinic instead of a public one, he insists that all services are in need of a check-up.

Laura Aguirre illustrated the discrepancy in access to abortion based on the stories of two women.

Álvaro Lasso Lokee bemoans the government we have and describes the one we really want.  

How should the often emotional desire for change be dealt with in Liberal democracies? 

How can progressive governments move beyond “mere welfare-ism” and truly challenge the existing system?

The street is “par excellence” the meeting place for social interactions, communication, and coexistence.  Recent events in Mexico point to needed changes to make it friendlier to political protest. 

Obama’s immigration plan “is to be commended for allowing undocumented yet otherwise law-abiding immigrants to ‘come out of the shadows and get right with the law.’”  Yet it “overlooks one important aspect – the reason why Latinos risk their lives to illegally enter the US in the first place.” 

Economists of a neoliberal bent have come to occupy a “disproportionate space” in public discourse on questions of social and economic policy. 

According to a study by the World Justice Project, Colombia ranks seventy-nine of ninety-nine countries in the effectiveness of its criminal justice system. Colombia’s Nasa People have their own remedy.