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Dealing with the Pandemic: A Stress Test for Colombian Political Institutions

  • Esteban Hoyos-Ceballos,
  • Julián Gaviria-Mira

Journal volume & issue
no. 2366-7044

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It has been a year now since a discussion began about the profound changes that the arrival of the SARS-Cov-2 pandemic could bring to our constitutional systems. This year has confirmed that the bad omens of the early days of the pandemic were well justified. The system has been put through a severe stress test and, unfortunately, we cannot say that it has been up to the challenge. This blog post seeks to briefly review the main events that have marked the institutional response to the pandemic and the implications that this response has had for the Colombian constitutional system.

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