Resumen Identificamos y reflexionamos posibilidades y desafios de asumir una vision critica de la educacion matematica en el contexto bogotano (Colombia). Para dar cuenta de ello, creamos el relato de un profesor investigador quien paulatinamente decide orientarse por la perspectiva critica de la educacion matematica. A traves de este relato pretendemos explicitar intereses y presupuestos teoricos que consideramos relevantes al comprometernos con la consolidacion de nuestras preocupaciones en educacion matematica. Abstract We identify and debate all possibilities and challenges of assuming a critical vision of mathematics education within the reflective context of Bogota, Colombia. In order to reflect this idea, we create a narrative of a research professor who gradually decides to follow a critical perspective for the education of mathematics. With this narrative, we strive to exhibit interests and theoretical presumptions that we consider relevant when we committe to the idea of consolidating our concerns within the subject of mathematics education.