The drug problem caused structural changes in various areas of Colombian society by altering the political scene, the economic dynamics and it causes a mark the country's population through their terrorist acts. Also, this problem because its scope has become since the late nineties, a major issue on the agenda of Colombian foreign policy so that the country had generated relevance in the international system for exercising a role negative in the region. Therefore, this paper aims to identify how the drug development process modified the insertion of Colombia in the international system during the years 1994 -2002.