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Colombia has been a political space where democracy and repression seem to walk on the same path. That is why it is relevant to question how occurred the students' movement called la Séptima Papeleta o Todavía Podemos salvar a Colombia at the end of the 1980s where come together different kinds of violence such as drugs dealers terrorism, illegal armed groups actions, state corruption and murdering of political leaders and citizens. On this scenario appears the question faced on this paper: was there any kind of state repression (control, restriction or rejection against the free exercise of first rank rights and civil freedoms), against the actions developed by the students' movement that established the basis for the 1991 constitutional reform? [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The historical study of the different procedural systems is a pending task in our legal field. Additionally, it is difficult to find academic texts that develop a global revision and a historical reconstruction of the essential characteristics of the main procedural criminal systems in our time, more precisely, of systems that would allow us to comprehend our existing system and its evolution. This paper's intention is to locate such characteristics and examine said evolution in the context of the new Accusatory System and its Criminal Procedure. In order to do so this study will verify which characteristics and institutions still remain, and which have been transformed or removed from the Colombian criminal procedural system. All this information has been compiled in order to undertake a historical evaluation of our systems of Criminal Procedure. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]