Vida y persistencia campesina en un contexto neoliberal

Análisis en una región de los Andes colombianos

Abstract

The development of the agricultural sector in Colombia has not been referred to as the medium from which can be developed other lines of the national economy and therefore achieve higher levels of development and social welfare for the campesino populations, including those of indigenous and African descent. By contrast, in the dominant visions, tenure of unproductive land aims for speculation in the land market serves as a mechanism of political and social cohesion. This article deals with this reality, from the analysis of the historical/structural phenomena that shape the present agro-rural countryside, and then subsequently focuses in a local context on the agrarian transformations and problems facing campesino societies in the neoliberal regime. Finally, we present in the form of a hypothesis, elements that can help to understand/explain the campesinos persistence in response to the specific political/economic processes that affect the country.