A zona de reserva camponesa de Cabrera: uma história de lutas e resistências

Abstract

The purpose of this work is to study the Peasant Reserve Zone (Zona de Reserva Campesina, ZRC) of the Cabrera municipality in Colombia, created in 2000. The ZRC are territories created by Law 160, 1994, their background being the peasant mobilizations during the eighties that vindicated the solution to problems related to the agrarian issue and the support to the peasant economy. They characterize for the slight presence of the State, especially by the repressive and coercive actions. In some cases, these are places with presence of armed actors and illicit crops. The ZRC constitute a rural development and agrarian reform proposal that includes an active role from the local communities. Since its enactment, through Decree 1777, 1996, six ZRC were institutionalized. The study of ZRC in Cabrera intends, in the first place, to understand the connection between a past of wars, struggles, and resistance to the access and permanence in the land during the 20th Century in the Sumapaz region, where the municipality of Cabrera is located, and the creation of the ZRC; secondly, it searches to identify the agrarian reform actions in the territory, understanding that the reservation areas seek to establish a limit to the property and correct the unequal land distribution; finally, the study aims at identifying the main progress and difficulties as from its establishment, as well as the new challenges faced by it, arising not only from the access to the land, but also from the defense of the territory and the environment.