Colombia: The Important Model for the Political Decentralization in Latin America

Abstract

          Colombia ranks as the third most populous Latin American country next to Brazil and Mexico and the fourth-largest Latin American economy next to Brazil, Mexico, and Argentina. The country has been struggling with economic uncertainty ever since El Libertador, Simón Bolívar, in 1810, entered upon a revolutionary war, declaring independence from the Spanish Empire. (Earle, 2000, 25)^[1]. However, Colombia recently succeed in the political decentralization than reduced the violence in the country. Colombia’s democratization based on a ‘power-sharing’ approach to reconcile political organizations and groups to participate in formal politics as conflict resolutions.