Abstract

PUERTA SILVA, Claudia Patricia. The Venezuelan Crisis and the Food Crisis of the Wayuu People in Colombia. Estud. Polit. [online]. 2020, n.57, pp.92-114. ISSN 0121-5167.  https://doi.org/10.17533/udea.espo.n57a05.

In 2014, alarms were raised about the death of more than 4000 Wayuu children from hunger in 6 years. Through a review of press articles, reports from international, national, and academic literature, and based on exploratory fieldwork, the relationship among three aspects of the Venezuelan crisis and the Wayuu’s access to food is identified and framed in the history of border dynamics. The strong dependence of the Wayuu on Venezuela and their isolation from centralized Colombian policies partly explain how the shortage of basic consumer products, the reduction of remittances, and the massive return of Wayuu people to their ancestral territories in Colombia contribute to the food crisis that have been affecting these indigenous people in the last decade.

Keywords : International Relations; Boundaries; Food Security; Migration; Indigenous Peoples; Wayuu People.

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