<p>From a historical and sociological perspective, this article analyzes essential aspects of the Rural Extension Programs in Colombia and Latin America, as well as its successes and failures and its problems, disclosing in-depth those factors of political, ideological, and socioeconomic interest behind these programs which are imposed by the developed world to the Third-World countries, and it evaluates the direct and indirect consequences for the peasantry of the region. At the same time, it proposes the gradual development of a more humane and liberating type of popular and pedagogical rural extension, which contributes to solving the chronic and worrying problems of the Colombian and Latin American peasants</p>