Consumer Rights in Colombia: Jurisprudential Analysis

Abstract

The consumer is the end of all economic activity, but it is the weak part of the consumer relationship. Therefore, there are consumer rights, for which the State must make them enforceable and effective, in favor of mitigating the mistrust between producers and consumers. In this sense, this article aims to examine the treatment and development of consumer rights by the Constitutional Court of Colombia through jurisprudence. Methodologically, the text is supported by the interpretive paradigm and the study is approached from the documentary method, based on theoretical and conceptual references on consumer rights. The analysis concludes that the Constitutional Court of Colombia, from 1994 to 2022, has  carried out a solid and concise examination of consumer rights, where, in general terms, it has not changed its position, but rather, On the contrary, it has made significant contributions that are considered an advance against the aforementioned rights, in favor of correcting evidenced asymmetries in the market and derived,  among other circumstances, from differences in terms of economic capacity and possession of information. of consumers.