Justicia Propia en el Pueblo Uitoto Mɨnɨka Post Constitución de 1991

Abstract

This article analyzes the challenges faced by the Uitoto Mɨnɨka People in their ancestral territory within the Predio Putumayo Reserve in the exercise of the Special Indigenous Jurisdiction (hereinafter JEI), starting with the 1991 Political Constitution (hereinafter CP91). To explain ideas and categories that examine how indigenous justice is exercised and how it has developed as a right within the framework of international treaties, laws and jurisprudence that adopt an intercultural perspective, all recognizing ethnic and cultural diversity, considering the intercultural approach. In this way, methodological criteria were established to observe and analyze the challenges posed by the exercise of this right from a descriptive character supported by the ethnographic and case study approach. It is hoped that this research will provide a vision and understanding of the application of justice in a holistic manner, preserving social cohesion in the relationship between the State and indigenous peoples in Colombia.