Bienes baldíos frente al programa de restitución de tierras

Abstract

The problem of the internal displacement of people due to violence is one of the most serious social consequences produced by the Colombian armed conflict. This situation has led more than 8,000,000 of compatriots to emigrate to other regions of the country more secure, especially to intermediate and large cities, such as Bogota, Medellin, Cali, etc, in order to flee and save at least their lives of violence exerted by armed groups in their regions. But this is not always the best solution, because what is generated by displacement is more poverty and misery. Most of these displaced by violence are peasant population, since the armed conflict developed more intensely in rural areas, because there is a fundamental component to violence: THE DISPUTE FOR THE EARTH, this is one of the main of the action of the armed groups outside the Law, call themselves Guerrillas, Paramilitaries, Bacrim, etc. The current Colombian conflict is revealed from its root tied to the problem of land control, and for that reason we consider that the analysis of the land issue is fundamental to understand the armed conflict and displacement as one of its consequences. It is called vacant land to real estate owned by the Nation and located in rural areas, which as a general rule must be awarded to those who occupy and meet the requirements of the law of land reform in Colombia. In our country there are many hectares of waste land but unfortunately despite the enormous efforts of the State to establish decrees and laws to protect the land, there is no true number of these nor has there been any concern to keep an adequate inventory of them. These uncultivated lands, if an agrarian reform was carried out according to the present, could be assigned as reparation to the victims of the armed conflict, to begin a real agrarian revolution in the Colombian fields. The purpose of this work is to make a contribution using as basic resources the history of land ownership in our country from the time of the colony to our days, the legal regulations (where analyzes will be conducted in light of the laws , decrees and judgments in relation to this issue) and their practical implications, thus assessing the work carried out by the National Government and in turn establishing guidelines to be able to propose the basis of a true agrarian reform that favors, above all, the victims of the armed conflict.