Luchas por el control territorial en Colombia

The main thesis of the paper is that concurrence of globalization impacts, decentralization processes and political crisis seriously weaken the role of the National State, particularly as they break the basis of political, administrative and economical centralism. On the other hand, local struggles for material resources and institutional control are exacerbated. Therefore, the local political negotiation power increases compared to the central government one, same about the decentralized functions than about the ones that are state-centered and centralized. Neoliberals, political reformers, political territorial classes, new social movements, drug traffickers, guerrillas and paramilitars openly dispute local power. All of them have a strategy, or at least a set of interests and practices about the decetralization process, which can be understood only as a result of the complexity of forces that acts on it.