The article deals with the reasons for the entry of the Republic of Colombia into the Non-Aligned Movement in 1983. The decision came when the Movement itself had already lost its original ideological connotation but showed the new foreign policy tendency wanted by Belisario Betancur, who was the president at that time. Indeed, the government of Bogota had fostered a “peace strategy” within a country that forced, internationally, to abandon the anti-communism and to claim a greater autonomy regarding the Washington's guidelines.