Dual State in Colombia

Administrative Department of Security (DAS). Information and Espionage Technologies

Abstract

Objective: to determine how the Administrative Department of Security (DAS) and parapolitics led to the emergence of a Dual State. Methodology: based on the theoretical perspective of authors such as Fraenkel and Bobbio, a reflective model of the events in the DAS and parapolitics was applied. The information was classified in three categories: a. DAS documents as primary sources, b. Press reports as secondary sources and perspectives of the moment, and c. Analyses of the aforementioned authors in analytically demonstrating the appearance of duality. Results: the DAS and the Parapolitics disintegrated the unity of the State as a guaranteeing factor for political participation, generating a duality from the politicization of a State organism and the introduction of groups outside the law in positions of power public. Conclusions: the ruptures in the integrality of the State as an area that guarantees the security and political participation of citizens, disintegrated at the moment in which the administrative and judicial bodies took a political side and criminalized the opposition sectors, generating a violation of civil and democratic rights.