REPORT: After winning adoption victory at constitutional court lesbian couple still refused adoption papers...

When Colombia's Constitutional Court ruled that Veronica Botero could adopt her lesbian partner's two children, the couple were ecstatic because their six-year legal battle seemed to be over.

The ruling, handed down in 2014, was the first of its kind in the socially conservative Andean nation.

But more than seven months later, university professor Botero, and her spouse, Ana Leiderman, are still waiting for their adoption papers, blocked by a local judge who has autonomy.

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