Resumen de ¿Por qué erradicamos? Entre bastiones de poder, cultura, y narcotráfico
In 1997, a quite unique process of voluntary eradication of poppy and coca was sparked within the Guambiano resguardo of Silvia (Cauca). This paper explores the ways in which local strategies of cultural and political survival have been activated as responses to the de-structuring effects of drug-ridden economies and ethos. While making a case on the need to defend the triad land-territorial autonomy-local authority, the resguardo government unleashed a process that successfully articulated cultural identity with a socially sanctioned mobilization against all practices and forces that would disrupt this triad. The paper suggests that the emergence of civic guards, the moral and social pressure to eradicate illicit crops, and later the consolidation of processes of civil peaceful resistance to armed conflict within the resguardo are examples of a broader process of creative local responses to an increasingly virulent conflict
