And justice for all? |
In the face of overwhelming public opposition Juan Manuel Santos' government was this week forced to ditch one of its most prized pieces of legislative reform. Reaction to the Justice Reform bill has caused a constitutional crisis threatening to take the government, the congress and the political class with it.
The bill passed by congress early last week was supposed to represent the culmination of two years of hard legislative graft; the government's centrepiece reform of this congressional session. At the 11th hour, however, a committee of congressmen hijacked the reforms, introducing clauses that would have generated chaos in Colombia's justice system.