Las negociaciones de paz entre la Gran Colombia y España: esperanzas y desencantos de un referente latinoamericano de reconciliación.

Abstract

Within the framework of the commemoration of the bicentenary of the Independence of Colombia and the current reflections on the post-conflict theme, the purpose of this research article is to analyze with a qualitative methodology the approaches made between 1820 and 1822 by the government of Gran Colombia with a view to sign a peace treaty with Spain after signing the armistice of Trujillo, with which the wars of Independence would end. There is no doubt that the republican government, in spite of its vacillations, was much more insistent in its peace project, for which it deployed not one but several proposals, some of them certainly generous. In contrast, Spain persisted in an intransigent attitude, still reluctant to accept a new political reality, which ultimately led to the loss of American domains. Despite the difficulties, these attempts at reconciliation became a benchmark for Latin American reconciliation with the world.