Colombia, entre la seguridad democrática y la paz. El proceso electoral de 2014: ¿primer paso hacia una transformación constitucional?

This text presents a reflection on the possibilities and risks arising for Colombia from the electoral process, which culminated last June 15, 2014, in terms of imagining a scenario which gives standing to a new constituent process and that is framed in the proposal of the new constitutionalism. The starting point is that in Colombia there has been a profound radicalization of two political positions, very similar ideologically but with deep differences in terms of the achievement of peace. From this statement, the specific question is to establish if given the current political circumstances, it is possible to point out that the ground for an activation of the constituent power that is conducive to a process of constitutional transformation is brewing. Additionally, the author wants to discuss whether this process would necessarily lead to a Constitution that would deepen the Charter of rights, material equality strategies and peace as a social requirement essential for the peaceful coexistence of the Colombians or if on the contrary, it could result in a legitimate Constitution, but that reflects a decline in terms of rights, by a failure of the process and a conservative radicalization. Regardless to what happens, the bases of a constituent process are making either to legitimize the peace agreement or to search for a rebellion directed to perpetuate the circular story in which the country has lived for so many decades. This reflection is based on a documentary analysis, from two types of sources of information: press and theoretical texts. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]