Abstract

RESTREPO PARRA, Adrián  and  MARTINEZ MARQUEZ, Wilmar. Private Government of Gold in Colombia. The Case of the Municipality of Buriticá, Antioquia. Estud. Polit. [online]. 2019, n.54, pp.15-36. ISSN 0121-5167.  https://doi.org/10.17533/udea.espo.n54a02.

Located in Buriticá (Antioquia-Colombia) is the most important gold mine in the country. The exploration and exploitation of the resources of this mine by the Canadian company Continental Gold unleashed a conflict with different actors of the territory. In the dynamics of conflict, the perception according to which in the mining activity the State is «absent» appears as a recurring aspect. This article controverts such perception based on the theory of indirect private government. This approach allows us to affirm that the State, by means of the discharge in private and with the direct State action, configures an exercise of political power that consolidates its presence in a sector (mining) and, in a determined territory (Buriticá), its domination.

Keywords : Private Government; Indirect Government; Neoliberalism; State Absence; Mining; Colombia.

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