Rule of law as institutional substrate — contract enforcement, judicial independence, equal treatment before the law. Upstream of most other axes.
Independence of the judiciary from executive and legislative encroachment. Specifically captures court-packing, selective prosecution, judicial reshuffles.
Following 30 April 1984 assassination of Justice Minister Rodrigo Lara Bonilla by the Medellín cartel, Betancur invoked the 1979 US-Colombia extradition treaty on 2 May 1984. First extraditions (Carlos Lehder 1987, Rafael Cardona Salazar) fueled Medellín cartel war through late 1980s. Supreme Court ruled treaty unenforceable via presidential decree December 1986 (after Palace of Justice destroyed case law); constitutional amendment required, completed under 1991 Constitution.
Per invariant 3, reforms are scored by what they did on each channel-separated axis, not by the party that enacted them. This fingerprint is how the policy-match engine finds historical analogues.
Explicit links are curated by the author. Inferred links are hypotheses in the library that test the same axes this policy moved — the framework's answer to "what does the data say about a policy like this?".
Ranked by axis-fingerprint overlap with this policy. Direction match bolded — those are the closest historical analogues. Shape of the match is what drives policy-outcome comparison, not the country or party label.