A juridical-practical framework for the investigation of crimes against granting of public housing services

The public service enterprises are victims of crimes and felonies which may reduce their capacity to perform their functions. These enterprises expend much money and effort in order to prevent those criminal behaviors. For this reason they ask from the authorities more efficient measures against crime; however, such enterprises may feel that they are not being given sufficient importance and/or remedies in dealing with such crime. The aim paper of this is not to study the problem from de substantive criminal law point of view. Rather, this paper’s goal is to study the Colombia’s Rules of Criminal Procedure, which regulate the investigation of this kind of crime. The article will look particularly at the competency of the relevant authorities at the investigative stages. Finally, it will make some recommendations regarding a proper route towards the investigation of these criminal behaviors.

Geopolítica del agua en América del Norte. Conflicto y cooperación en las cuencas entre Canadá y Estados Unidos

Canadá y Estados Unidos comparten en su frontera más de 150 ríos y lagos que han sido objeto de diferentes controversias. Por tal motivo, se han establecido mecanismos de cooperación, tales como la Comisión Mixta Internacional, con el fin de regular y armonizar los temas concernientes a estas cuencas compartidas. Sin embargo, esos instrumentos en la actualidad ya no son suficientes para preservar la seguridad ambiental de la zona y dar el manejo adecuado a las problemáticas ecológicas que se presentan. Las dinámicas de la hidropolítica que involucran a un país como Estados Unidos, caracterizado por una escasez hídrica importante, ocupan un lugar relevante en las agendas de estos dos gobiernos y que con mayor ahínco, comprometen la soberanía de ambos, al generar relaciones de tensión y una carencia de instrumentos institucionales internacionales que les permitan dirimir de manera efectiva estas nuevas controversias.-----Canada and the United States share more than 150 rivers and lakes along their borders, which have been subject to different conflicts. For such reason, cooperation mechanisms have been established, such as the International Joint Commission, with the aim of regulating and reconciling the topics concerning such shared basins. However, today those instruments are not sufficient anymore for the preservation of the environmental security and for providing proper management of the ecologic issues that arise. The hydropolitics dynamics involving such a country as the United States, which features a major water shortage, hold a relevant place in the agendas of these two governments, and compromise harder both countries sovereignty by creating tense relations and a lack of international institutional instruments which enable them to resolve these new conflicts on an effective way.