The main objective of this article is to identify the legislative process of cooperativism in Colombia, from the promulgation of the 1991 Constitution until 2016, describing fractions of time that open a path for the understanding of the economic and social activities legislated on cooperativism in the country. The development of the study and fulfillment of the general objective is subject to a methodology with a purely qualitative approach, which foresees the use of a data collection technique, in this case only laws, and their description.
The classification of the data leads to the identification of three historical temporary periods of legislative production on cooperativism; a first period from 1991 to 2004, which marks a new beginning of cooperativism from the birth of the Colombian Constitution of 1991 and its development; a second period from 2005 to 2016, all of the above is aimed at building an article of revision, which will build the basis for the development of all the research to which it belongs in this study
