{"id":715,"date":"2013-06-04T06:18:00","date_gmt":"2013-06-04T06:18:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pachamamitaecu-org-720647.hostingersite.com\/2013\/06\/04\/la-guerrilla-o-las-multinacionales\/"},"modified":"2023-03-02T06:22:24","modified_gmt":"2023-03-02T06:22:24","slug":"la-guerrilla-o-las-multinacionales","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pachamamitaecu.org\/en\/2013\/06\/04\/the-guerrillas-or-the-multinationals\/","title":{"rendered":"The guerrillas or the multinationals?"},"content":{"rendered":"
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This is what Manuel and I were wondering as we talked about the guerrilla, natural resources and the possibility of a greater presence of multinationals. Manuel is an artist, a land worker and one of those people who is a pleasure to meet and a pleasure to talk to. Of course, always with a cigarette or a good Colombian coffee in between.<\/span><\/div>\n

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\u201cGuerrillas would be better because as long as there is guerrillas, multinationals will not come in. If multinationals come in, we will be worse off, because with them comes slavery,\u201d says Manuel.<\/span>

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But of course the problem is that the Colombian guerrilla (FARC or ELN, either of them) is very distorted with respect to the guerrilla ideals of other decades. In addition, it is part of the economic interests related to drug trafficking and the natural resources of the region. Some of the inhabitants of southern Colombia prefer \u201cthe devil you know to the devil you don\u2019t know,\u201d but many are aware and very clear that this guerrilla no longer represents them: for example, they attack civilian populations, whether indigenous or peasant, without hesitation.<\/span>

<\/span>On the other hand, many of them prefer the guerrillas to the paramilitaries. They say that with the guerrillas one can talk and reach an agreement, while with the paramilitaries there is nothing to do, since they defend the interests of the powerful and nothing more. They also know that part of their financing comes from drug trafficking and therefore they will never be an independent guerrilla. Furthermore, in some places, the guerrillas represent law and order and control absolutely everything. Once again we see, as in so many other situations, that the vacuums left by the state are invariably filled by groups that clearly respond to other interests: their own.<\/span><\/div>\n

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