Tumaco un Enclave Nuclear en el Sostenimiento de la Guerrilla

Abstract

This paper refers to the way the armed conflict has developed in Tumaco in recent years. On this subject, the particular conditions of the village are analyzed; on the one hand, its geostrategic and border location makes it a corridor for narcotics commerce; also, the institutional abandonment and State weakness in the region generate a high level of vulnerability for the inhabitants, and reproduce situations of structural violence which affect directly the citizens. Consequently, the objective conditions put the population in risk before the armed contenders. It is observed that, in the last decade, the dynamics of violence has changed because of the presence of several armed contenders, which are in dispute to be hegemonic in the region and take control over the narcotics traffic. These contenders have had a series of confrontations among them and against the military forces; the military, whether strengthened by the democratic security policy, have not intended to solve the structural problem of the violence. The dissuasive presence of the State, even with modern public forces, makes the structural violence to generate a high level of direct violence, affecting gravely the civil population, while the index of such direct violence is highly over the national average. Meanwhile, it is not in sight the political will to transform the conflict and, therefore dealing the structural causes that gave origin to it.