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This text presents a critique of the version of the Colombian conflict constructed by Law 1448 of 2011 and the indicators designed to evaluate its implementation. The principal argument is that the text of the law and the indicators used have produced, consolidated and normalized an exclusionary vision of the armed conflict and created an exotic idea of the conflict, centred on the rural and the distant, ignoring its nearby, everyday nature. This exotic concept of the conflict is linked to the way in which the model of transitional justice has been constructed and globalized. The text is based on a case study carried out in Cali, the capital of the Department of Valle del Cauca, and currently the most violent urban centre in the country. The conclusion of the paper is that indicators are not only measures - they shape reality and profoundly impact people's live

Al paso que los textos críticos tradicionales afirman que los indicadores son una nueva forma de dominación del sur por el norte, las personas en el sur no experimentan estos indicadores como tales. En cierta forma, algunos movimientos sociales han usado el discurso que rodea a los indicadores para obtener capital monetario y simbólico. Este artículo analiza estos indicadores como una forma de resistencia, que desestabiliza la crítica tradicional del discurso. El caso de las Madres Comunitarias desarrollado entre junio de 2012 y febrero de 2013, muestra que los burócratas de la calle usan los indica- dores como un mecanismo de empoderamiento. Las Madres Comunitarias muestran una agencia no documentada que desarrolla la agenda feminista de ayudar a las mujeres, contrario a la agenda gubernamental que promueve la asistencia a los niños y las políticas de programas de infancia temprana. Whereas mainstream critical literature affirms that indicators are a new global form of North-South domination, people in the global south do not experience these indicators as such. In some ways, some social movements have used the discourse surrounding indicators to obtain monetary and symbolic capital. This article analyzes these indicators as a form of resistance, destabilizing traditional criticism of the discourse. The Community Mothers case study, developed between June 2012 and February 2013, shows how street-level bureaucrats use the indicators as an empowerment mechanism. The Community Mothers display an undocumented agency that develops a feminist agenda of helping fellow women, contrary to the government agenda that promotes childcare and the early childhood program policies. In this sense, the fieldwork undertaken portrays mothers and children as conflicting actors. Despite this, the social policy indicators hide this conflict reproducing the normative image that ideologically links mothers with their children.

This paper answers the question of how the state affects the power distribution among the citizens by bureaucratic interaction. The author argues that we have to analyze the interaction between citizens and street-level bureaucrats to understand the state's role on a daily basis. I illustrate my theoretical argument with an example of the bureaucratic behavior inside of a conditional cash transfer program in colombia. The article concludes that the legal academia has to rediscover the street-level bureaucrat concept in order to recognize new stages of litigation beyond the judiciary branch. Este documento responde a la pregunta de cómo el Estado afecta a la distribución del poder entre los ciudadanos en la interacción burocrática. La autora sostiene que hay que analizar la interacción entre ciudadanos y funcionarios callejeros para entender el papel del Estado en la vida cotidiana. El argumento teórico se ilustra con un ejemplo de la conducta burocrática dentro de un programa de asistencia social con subsidios monetarios condicionados en colombia. El artículo concluye que la academia jurídica debe re-descubrir el concepto de burócrata callejero con el fin de ampliar la estrategia de litigio para el cambio social.