DESCENTRALIZACIóN Y RECUPERACIóN SOCIAL DEL TERRITORIO

Twenty years after the Colombian PoliticalConstitution was signed, the current researchaims at analyzing the state of thatdecentralizing alternative, taking into accounttwo essential elements – the democratization inthe exercise of the local power, and the responsibilities and the fiscal autonomy of the territorial entities, to the light of a governmental strategy of the Uribe Government – the socalled Social Recovery of the Territory -, within a concrete plan of a national government – the Frame Plan for the Integral Recovery of “Montes de María–” and several Municipal Development Plans, such as those from El Carmen de Bolívar, San Onofre, San Jacinto and Ovejas.