？Adiós a la democracia? Un análisis de las propuestas de paz en el gobierno de álvaro Uribe Vélez y su incidencia en las instituciones democráticas

abstract: the aim of this article is to offer an analysis of the peace policies of uribe vélez？s government and their effects on colombian democratic institutions and political culture. i will not evaluate directly if the said peace policies were successful in ending the internal political conflict of colombia, but rather to show that the link between a weak institutional democracy, such as colombia`s, the great influence of uribe vèlez`s personality in the political imaginary and his projects of democratic security and of a communitarian state, in so far as these projects were part of his peace policies. the central thesis i defend in this article is that precisely colombia`s democratic weakness enabled that a policy such as álvaro uribe`s in relation to peace was supported by a large part of the population, even though this policy instead of strengthening democracy weakened more its institutions and political culture.