It starts from the premise of establishing the truth as an institutional objective of the judicial process to then analyze the institution of evidentiary stipulations in the Colombian criminal process. Then, the answer to the question about what is meant by negotiated truth is sought? After that, a brief approach to the regulation of evidentiary stipulations in some Latin American legislations is presented. Finally, an approach is offered about the role of the judge in the evidentiary stipulations facing the institutional objective of the criminal process of the search for the truth. © 2023 Instituto Brasileiro de Direito Processual Penal. All rights reserved.