El alejamiento de los militares de la vida política en Colombia dentro de la historia republicana, un análisis hasta el siglo XX.

Abstract

Throughout Colombian history there was concern about the participation of the military in politics, therefore this review of historical and juridical literature focuses on reviewing how a juridical phenomenon can be approached from a historical point of view, as part of which the objective was to evaluate the causes of the withdrawal of the military from Colombian political life in the Republican period, taking into account that there are two main periods in this discussion, one in the nineteenth century, in which many of the presidents were part of the Army, and with an intermediate phase at the end of the century with respect to their participation in political life, and at the beginning of the 20th century, during the government of Rafael Reyes, with the professionalization of the Army seeking to leave aside its influence on Colombian politics, in order to turn them into military forces incapable of achieving any ideological affiliation, or that are outside the subordination of the legal framework and civilian power, within this discussion a review of literature in academic search engines was developed from a qualitative methodology, reaching the conclusion that this distinction between civil and political power seeking the general wellbeing and leaving aside the political, economic and social instability that accompanied the country during the nineteenth century, therefore the military forces are apolitical in Colombia and the subject has become as forbidden in recent years for the law.