This research article aims to perform a reading of the history of Colombian criminal law regarding the period between 1971 a 1986. For that matter three significant events have been identified which concern the dynamics of the criminal discourse during this time: the closure of the Criminal Colony of Araracuara, the issuing of the Security Statute and the issuing of the Criminal Code of 1980. Therefore, this investigation seeks to prove that the continuousness of supplice practices -torture, disappearances, extrajudicial executions- throughout this period is due to the uninterruptedness of the same raison d?fitat that permeated the functioning of the corresponding criminal regime within the framework of a permanent output of a criminal law for the enemy. This document means to make explicit the place that this raison d?fitat dynamic takes in the functioning of the criminal system and the profound discourse that inspires it. Finally, this paper concludes with an analysis of the role of human rights within the dynamics of the raison d?£tat in order to prove the existence of a discursive tension present in the handling of the human rights discourse issued both by human rights international organizations as well as by the State of Colombia.