This paper seeks to identify the discursive tension between modern and contemporary temporal registers, which takes place in the state discourses of Citizenship Education in Colombia. Through the review of Colombian educational policy documents related to Citizen Formation between 2002 and 2018, it was identified that, in such discourses, a social and political conception of citizenship confronts each other, giving rise to two different figures of citizen associated with a national citizenship of liberal roots, and a global citizenship, permeated by contemporary market logics. It is concluded that a constitutive element of this tension would be a rationality of violence rooted in the modern idea of political community, and which, in addition, would have found new ways of manifesting itself, supported by a neoliberal rationality.