¿Educar para reprimir o reprimir para educar?: La respuesta del Estado frente al paro estudiantil 2018

Abstract

Colombia, as a Social and Democratic State of Law, consecrates peaceful protest as a fundamental right, whose background is aimed at invigorating democratic principles in the constitutional system, but what happens when students exercise the right to protest? it is valid to ask if is educated to repress or is repressed to educate ?. Having said this, and faced with the development of the different marches of the student strike in 2018, the following question arises: Was the response of the Colombian State legitimate? To answer the previous question, the context of the Student Movement in Colombia, its origin and development, the causes that led to the student strike that took place in 2018, the demands of university students to the Government, within the which will be developed regarding the guarantee of social protest as a constitutional right, its regulation, however it is necessary to understand how Colombian legislation limits the right to protest and how, in light of the regulations, the State must respond when the right to protest is exercised outside the legal limits, being clear about the above, the development of the most relevant manifestations developed during the National Student Strike in 2018 will be announced, to end by analyzing the actions of the State through the public force and its legitimacy.