Abstract

CRUZ-RODRIGUEZ, Edwin. "We are all children of coffee": political sociology of the National Strike Coffee. Entramado [online]. 2013, vol.9, n.2, pp.138-158. ISSN 1900-3803.

Between February 25 and March 8, 2013, in Colombia the most important protest took place in the history of the coffee union, the National Strike Coffee. This work examines the factors that made possible this collective action. First, reconstructs the political contest between protesters and opponents and their strategies at different times. Second, the explanatory variables of the protest, the political opportunity structure in which it occurs, the structures that endured mobilization and collective action frames that were implemented. The trigger one of the protest was the crisis without precedents of the coffee sector. Nevertheless, the magnitude that reached had not been possible without a previous process of organization, in the frame of the Movement for the Defense and Coffee Dignity, which allowed to plan and to develop collective supported actions, to implement a few discursive strategies to articulate different actors to his fight and to take advantage of this form of the political relating to the moment opportunities.

Keywords : Colombia; national strike Coffee; 2013; coffee dignity; collective action.

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