Colonización y estrategias organizativas: memoria histórica de los campesinos afiliados al Sindicato de Trabajadores Agrícolas Independientes del Meta (Sintragim), en Mesetas-Colombia, 1959-2017
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2019
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Revista Páginas. Escuela de Historia. Facultad de Humanidades y Artes. Universidad Nacional de Rosario
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Este artículo da cuenta de las estrategias de organización y sus posteriores repliegues en
diferentes contextos caracterizados por el recrudecimiento y distensión de la violencia
contra los campesinos organizados a través del Sindicato de Trabajadores Agrícolas
Independientes del Meta, seccional Mesetas, durante el periodo propuesto. Para ello se
decidió dar cuenta de varios aspectos claves, como los procesos de poblamiento, estrategias
organizativas, reivindicaciones sociales y políticas y, por último, las formas de violencia
ejercidas por parte de grupos armados. Todo lo anterior permite comprender las dinámicas
sociohistóricas de una organización sindical campesina conformada desde un principio por
desplazados de la región andina, quienes procuraron construir un proyecto político en una
región inhóspita y con una precaria presencia del Estado colombiano.
This article gives an account of the organizational strategies and their subsequent reflections in different contexts characterized by the recrudescence and detente of violence against peasants organized through the Union of Independent Agricultural Workers of Meta, Mesetas section, during the proposed period. For this purpose, it was decided to give an account of several key aspects, such as the processes of settlement, organizational strategies, social and political demands and, finally, the forms of violence exercised by armed groups. All this allows us to understand the sociohistorical dynamics of a peasant union organization formed from the beginning by displaced people from the Andean region, who tried to build a political project in an inhospitable region with a precarious presence of the Colombian State.
This article gives an account of the organizational strategies and their subsequent reflections in different contexts characterized by the recrudescence and detente of violence against peasants organized through the Union of Independent Agricultural Workers of Meta, Mesetas section, during the proposed period. For this purpose, it was decided to give an account of several key aspects, such as the processes of settlement, organizational strategies, social and political demands and, finally, the forms of violence exercised by armed groups. All this allows us to understand the sociohistorical dynamics of a peasant union organization formed from the beginning by displaced people from the Andean region, who tried to build a political project in an inhospitable region with a precarious presence of the Colombian State.
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Memoria histórica, Mesetas, Campesinos, Estrategias de organización, Historical memory, Plateaus, Peasants