Descripción: “...Pierre Bourdieu’s cultural-structuralism is used, showing that past structures, natural or artificial, as well as culture—pattern of behavior—present in 19th century Colombia, are strongly relevant in order to understand contemporary Colombia, to say, institutions and the State. Aware of this cultural-structuralism, some alternatives are proposed with some illustrative examples, using not only the same methodological approach but also giving similar weight to cultural and/or economic alternatives, in order to avoid repeating the same mistake: a unilinear view of development that would add more momentum to the double jeopardy and the conundrum. ...”