En este artículo argumento que la hoja de coca es un vector en el ejercicio político de campesinas/os en el Putumayo colombiano. A partir del trabajo de campo realizado durante las protestas campesinas de 2019 y 2021, analizo algunas de las posiciones y narrativas que tiene el cultivo de hoja de coca como objeto central tanto de airadas defensas como de las estrategias antidrogas. Concluyo que la coca ha favorecido la permanencia de campesinos en sus tierras, así como la creación de espacios de construcción de ciudadanía en términos campesinos y putumayenses. Aporta a la cuestión del estado local, un tema central para la antropología política actual.
Cocalero debates over life and territory The results of the War on Drugs are contradictory. We have seen an increase inthe size of the armies; the countryside land has high levels of poison, theprisons are crowd, the mafias are strong, and violence is overused in legal andillegitimate forms. The Colombian Putumayo is one of the aims of this war,mainly because its located at a geopolitical strategic place: a space of transit between the Andes and the Amazon, a Frontierland, an extractivism site, a highnumber of coca hectares, many cocaine laboratories, and a favored place for many armed actors. Therefore, the Putumayan population, in an exercise of popularpolitics responds to aggression and vulnerability. They develop peasanttechnologies to guard coca leaves, to transfer the crops from one place toanother. Peasants carry out protests and manifestations, participate innegotiations, write accords and programmatic documents. This text is areflection on the 2021 National Strike from the point of view of the Putumayanpeasant protests. I will focus on coca leaf cultivation and control in theregion.
Keywords: Andean- Amazon; antidrugs, coca economy; popular politics; National Strike
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