Un pueblo que dio ejemplo y muestras de civilidad

In accord with an agreement signed in the year 2005 between the Caicedo Municipality, Antioquia and the Open Long Distance National University (Universidad Nacional Abierta y a Distancia (UNAD) a research work was done in that municipality to the southwest of Antioquia with the aim of doing a monograph of the municipality and to implement a municipal syllabus. This work was done through a participative research methodology that counted with the involvement and economical support of the Educational State Secretariat, thorough the project Improvement of the Quality of Education (Mejoramiento de la calidad de la educación). The goal was to regain the historical legacy of the municipality, with the participation of its protagonists, and to place it in a written text form for the consultation of the present and future generations. In this sense, two books were published with the municipal syllabus (one for elementary school and a second one for middle and high school) and a book with the Caicedo Municipality’s monograph, considered the First Non Violent Municipality in Colombia (Primero Municipio no Violento de Colombia), for the signs of civilized society that it gave after the violence acts that occurred there, such as the kidnapping and murder of the Governor of Antioquia, Guillermo Gaviria Correa, and his peace councillor, Gilberto Echeverry Mejía.