Paro Nacional Agrario: incidencia de la voz campesina en la construcción discursiva de los medios de comunicación

Abstract

Taking into account the situation that the country went through in the framework of the National Agrarian Strike that took place from August 19 to September 12, 2013, the subject of this investigation is the absence of peasant discourse in the media and the lack of communication channels in which agricultural workers could make their problems visible by making specific complaints. On Monday, August 19, the cessation of activities began in the form of a protest by the peasants due to their disagreements with both the government and agrarian policies such as the costs of the inputs required to carry out their work, the high costs intermediation, the prohibition of the use of national seeds that came with the approval of law 970 of 2010, by the Colombian Agricultural Institute (ICA), which seeks to protect a factor called copyright of seed production companies, forcing peasants to buy the necessary materials in each harvest and criminalizing the reuse of seeds in future plantings and the lack of guarantees by the State in terms of rights, investment and sustainability.