2025, President Gustavo Petro , through the red social The previous, in allusion to the automatic constitutional control, integral and posterior that the Constitutional Court implements to the legislative decrees. The president's actions are a consequence of a humanitarian crisis presented in the Catatumbo region, bordering Venezuela, with 43,178 hectares of coca cultivations and of great geostrategic value. The reason for the declaration was the different attacks of the insurgent group ELN on signatories of the peace agenda, on the civil population and various armed confrontations with other groups on the sidelines of the law, as is the case of the dissent of the FARC-EP. These attacks have caused decades of deaths and thousands of displacements .
In a risky decision by the Government of Colombia, this was job seekers database only declared by the declaration of internal democracy through Decree 062 of 2025 (which has not been declared constitutional since the year 2002) and the cessation of the economic emergency. This is not the first time that Petro's government intends to tackle a humanitarian crisis by using a state of exception, since it happened on July 2, 2023, when the economic, social and economic emergency was declared in the Guajira department.
In that case, the Constitutional Court established that the declaratory decree was inexequible ( Sentence C 383 of 2023 ), but its declaration of unconstitutionality would be deferred for one year. To weigh the unconstitutionality of the declaratory decree, the Court stated that the 13 legislative decrees expedited by the Government during the cited emergency were in force and the high tribunal would determine one by one on their constitutionality.
2. The history of the country is marked by a state of exception, as was the state of the country in force under the Constitution of 1886. While all the countries of Latin America were governed by decree during the second part of the 20th century, Colombia was only once, relatively short and it was Gustavo's Rojas Pinilla (1953-1957). The foregoing is due in part to the fact that we do not need soldiers in the power, because we keep highly powerful civilians, trained by the state of the site.