The purpose of this article is to identify the advancements and difficulties to implement the law of victims and land restitution (law 1448 of 2001), from 2011 to 2017 in the department of Antioquia, based on the results of the interviews carried out with SNARIV administrative operators in this territorial entity and the analysis of management reports and evaluation of the policy issued by the coordinating entities. This review shows that the process on integral reparation to the victims of the armed conflict in Antioquia has been limited by the economic, political and financial difficulties that have been historical and structural to the centralized State model in Colombia; problems in the geographic development, added to the persistence of the armed conflict; which shows the existence of a normative framework that recognizes and promotes rights, but at the same time creates new institutions that do not have enough financial and administrative capacity to implement reparation measures, and that can leave this in a level of mere expectation for the victims of the armed conflict.