La María-Piendamó, meeting of powers Social and Community Resistance Minga, 2008

Abstract

This paper is the result of the advances in the investigation called Emergencies, events and resistance in the Zapatistas -EZLN-, the Cauca Regional Indigenous Council -CRIC- and the Arauco-Malleco Coordinator -CAM- of the Mapuche, 1994-2014, 20 years of struggle of the Latin American indigenous movement, within the framework of the Doctorate in Social Studies of the FJDC District University in Bogotá. He focuses his attention on a historical event that occurred in 2008 where the National Government and the Indigenous Movement grouped in the CRIC confronted each other, there two powers were revealed, the power of the Colombian State and the emerging power of the Minga of Social Resistance and Community. Memory and historical event are the theoretical axis that guide the presentation, which methodologically addresses the hermeneutics of documents emanating from the Government, the CRIC and the press of the moment. The reconstruction of this historical event would not have been possible without the collective memory of the CRIC consigned in its documents and which results in or concludes the fundamental importance for him, the Colombian and surely Latin American social movement of the Minga as a form of organization, resistance and of proposal of transformation of concrete realities.