Abstract

HERNANDEZ, Jorge Andrés. The Colombian Constitution of 1991 and Its Detractors. The Failure of the Constitutional Consensus. colomb.int. [online]. 2013, n.79, pp.49-76. ISSN 0121-5612.

The Colombian constitution of 1991 brought major reforms to Colombia's political institutions and has been analyzed by political scientists and constitutional lawyers as the product of a wide constitutional consensus. But twenty years after, there is strong evidence of a legal, political and social process of counter-reformation against the principles and values of the Constitution. This process reveals that there is no such a thing like a constitutional consensus in Colombia.

Keywords : 1991 Colombian constitution; constitutional failure; constitutional consensus; paramilitarism; Álvaro Uribe; Pacto de Ralito.

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