Considerations about criminal actors in Colombia, as mutations of the internal conflict, from the economic perspective and the history of international relations (2006-2018)

Authors

  • Patricio García Pérez Profesor adjunto en el Departamento de Historia de la Universidad de Santiago de Chile (Chile)
  • Julián García Sanhueza

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.15648/hc.39.2021.2963

Keywords:

Transnational crime, post-conflict, institutional risk factors, criminal capitalism, economic growth

Abstract

This study analyses the armed actors in Colombia’s post-conflict from the partial demobilization of the United Self-Defenses Forces of Colombia (AUC in Spanish) in 2006 until the peace agreements signing with the Revolutionary Armed-Forces of Colombia—People's Army (FARC-EP). It aims at establishing the insurgent and counterinsurgent armed actors’ transformation into transnational criminal groups promoting criminal capitalism, taking advantage of institutional gaps and the absence of modern economic actors, thus impacting economic growth and potential development in the country's departments where they are concentrated. This paper works towards an initial framework to study the impact of institutional gaps, illegal economies and the presence of armed actors on economic growth in the Colombian departments most affected by violence.

Author Biographies

Patricio García Pérez, Profesor adjunto en el Departamento de Historia de la Universidad de Santiago de Chile (Chile)

El autor es doctor en Historia por la Universidad de Santiago de Chile. Es miembro permanente del Seminario Internacional sobre Historia de la Violencia en América Latina.

Julián García Sanhueza

Ayudante de investigación del Centro de Estudios del Conflicto y Cohesión Social del Departamento de Economía de la Universidad de Chile

How to Cite

García Pérez, P., & García Sanhueza, J. . (2021). Considerations about criminal actors in Colombia, as mutations of the internal conflict, from the economic perspective and the history of international relations (2006-2018). Historia Caribe, 16(39), 153–188. https://doi.org/10.15648/hc.39.2021.2963

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2021-07-01

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