This article recounts the April 1992 strike that the organized workers of the National Telecommunications Company (Telecom) unleashed to protest against the privatization attempt of this public company proposed by the government of César Gaviria (1990-1994), a strike that so far had not been narrated from a historical perspective. After reviewing the concept of Neoliberalism, the author focuses on the economic policy changes and the new forms of state that appeared in the nineties, giving a brief historical context of the predominant forms in the second half of the twentieth century.