They arrived at night: tensions between mining and the rural resistance

Abstract

On this article it ́s analyzed the differents forms in which the Colombian State and the economic groups insert the mining on rural zones with an agrarian vocation starting from the development plans in a national, regional and local levels, procuring identify its development focus and its contributions to the incursion and expansion of the hegemonic model on territories with no extractivities productives activities. At the same time, the article makes an aproximation to the strategies that the market agents use to open a way in places with many natural wealth enabling a form of navigate in an escenary of corelation of State politics and economic forces. Finally, it’s naming some elements to make a reflection about the mechanisms and manueverses elaborated by the society to oppose to the mining initiatives.