Between the students' movement and the armed struggle in Colombia. About utopias and Peace talks

The current political situation in the country; marked by the negotiations between the Government and the guerrilla of FARC-EP, leads us into thinking of a historical configuration of an armed left-wing in Colombia. In that sense, this article focuses on the relationship that one part of a university students generation from the 60's and 70's in the 20th century had with the armed struggle as a method of political participation and social transformation. The university profile of the current guerrilla commanders led us to reflect about the ways that some student activists configured their political fight from a representation of the political system and the commitment to lead the country towards socialism. Up to a certain point, we consider that the militancy of left-wing movements in universities is the source of some clues to understand a present when a hope for the end of the longest conflict in the hemisphere is strongly emerging.