The following document attempts to show that Colombia is not disconnected from the economic dynamics experienced throughout the rest of the world, nor is it impervious to transnational corporate expansion or retreat. To do so, this text reviews the various cycles imposed accordingly by liberalism, protectionism and neo­ conservative economics. These phases have determined the Government’s participation in international companies’ appropriation of national resources. Our purpose is also to highlight an inclination of the scale that favors the foreign investor as well as a liberalization of the energy mining resources in recent years. All of this occurs despite the imminent and upcoming energetic crisis the country faces and the importance of these resources for its economy. As an example of the activity carried out by some of the most influential multinational companies operating within the country, we have pointed out the fact that various regions are now the epicenter of large mining and oil drilling megaprojects ­ as is the case with Arauca, Casanare, Cesar, Cordoba and Guajira ­ while other zones ­ such as the south of Bolivar and Antioquia’s northwest ­ project participation in this incoming foreign capital in the near future. Thus the dynamics working in each one of these regions is directly determined by the stage in which it finds itself along the road to extracting appropriation.