Conservative government operating amid regional debt crisis, escalating cartel-violence, and attempted guerrilla peace negotiation. Four doctrinal pillars: (1) debt-crisis fiscal adjustment without IMF programme — the "Colombian Exception"; 1983-1985 voluntary fiscal consolidation cut public-sector deficit from 7.5% to 2.5% of GDP, maxi-devaluation of peso 1984-1985, and a quasi-IMF monitoring arrangement short of formal letter of intent preserved international creditor access without debt restructuring; (2) peace dialogue — Ley 35 de 1982 amnesty for political crimes; March 1984 Uribe Accord with FARC (truce to 1987); May 1984 ceasefire with M-19, EPL, ADO; Unión Patriótica (UP) founded 1985 as FARC civilian arm — later subjected to paramilitary extermination; (3) Palace of Justice siege — 6-7 November 1985 M-19 takeover of the Colombian Supreme Court killed 98 people including 11 of 25 magistrates; army retook building; Betancur's peace strategy collapsed; (4) Armero tragedy — 13 November 1985 Nevado del Ruiz eruption buried Armero town (~25,000 deaths); exposed civil-protection weakness. Escalating war with Pablo Escobar's Medellín cartel (Justice Minister Rodrigo Lara assassinated April 1984 led to US extradition-treaty activation). Stated school: Conservative moderate-reformist tradition + social-Catholic peace theology. Left-right axis: centre-right economic content, reconciliation- centre-left security posture. Popularity / legitimacy: May 1982 election Betancur won 46.8% with Liberal vote split between López Michelsen (41.0%) and Galán's Nuevo Liberalismo (10.9%) — the first Conservative since 1946 when Liberals divided. Coherence line: trade IMF-programme orthodoxy and guerrilla-suppression for sovereign debt-management autonomy and political-negotiation peace strategy — peace strategy broke November 1985.
Policy-content fingerprint — how the framework codes this movement on its axes
Independence of the judiciary from executive and legislative encroachment. Specifically captures court-packing, selective prosecution, judicial reshuffles.