Situación actual y perspectivas de la guerra interna

Colombia faces a civil war since the sixties. In the late twentieth century war escalated and degraded and its nature and dynamics were affected by the expansion and consolidation of the economy and international drug criminal organizations, strengthening of paramilitary, and changes in the development model and the new Constitution Policy 1991. At the end of the century, guerrilla groups were on the offensive, strengthened militarily but politically weakened, drug trafficking and paramilitary partially co-opted the State and affected the reconfiguration of economic and political power municipal and departmental. Earlier this century the government, with U.S. support, restructured military forces gained the initiative in the field of battle and changed in their favor the balance of power at the cost of a major humanitarian crisis, human rights and inadequate treatment of the paramilitaries. The war displaced marginal and frontier areas and the government changed the emphasis on security to the economy. Under these conditions began peace talks with the Farc-ep in the perspective of an agreement to end the conflict.