Los carteles, más que un fraude a los consumidores

Abstract

Against the right to free competition, the national and foreign entrepreneurs have always sought strategies that allow them to grow and be well positioned in the market, reason why in some cases come to business practices restrictive as it is the creation of agreements or colloquially called cartels, which are not more than agreements between two or more companies to implement strategies that allow stakeholders the management of prices on the market, as well as the conditions of the product either quality, geographical access and the elimination of new competitors from the market. But these practices not only affect small entrepreneurs or not involved in cartels, also they directly affect consumers, because to have monopolized a market, this will be aimed at acquiring more and more income and not focusing on satisfying the customer or consumer, who is who makes the purchase decision according to what it finds on the market, at the price that is, for the basic purpose of supplementing a need;; and although both the international States and Colombia have adopted measures of legal control, yet there are aspects to strengthen to counteract and eliminate these practices that indirectly affect an entire society