Making Space for the Cauca River in Colombia

Moreno, Renata; Selfa, Theresa

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“…Cerro Tijeras occupies a part of the Cauca River Basin, which is the country's main sugar producing region. 43 Though the exact population of Cerro Tijeras is difficult to state with certainty, some sources estimate that the community has a population of around 6,000 inhabitants. 44 These inhabitants are divided into veredas, which are illustrated on the political map of Cerro Tijeras in Figure 3.…”

Section: Cerro Tijeras and The Nasa Way Of Lifementioning

confidence: 99%

“…99 From the beginning of its construction, the Salvajina Dam was promoted by sugar elites in Colombia's Cauca region. 101 Sugarcane growers, with support from the World Bank and the Colombian government, created the Regional Autonomous corporation of the Valle del Cauca (CVC), which modelled itself after the United States' Tennessee Valley Authority. 102 The CVC was charged with generating electricity, implementing an irrigation plan, and designing engineering solutions to flooding in Cauca.…”

Section: Key Players In Indigenous Resistance and Protection § § Regimentioning

confidence: 99%

“…106 Under a program called the "Lilienthal Plan," the CVC was able to propose and construct projects like the Salvajina Dam, which catered to agricultural entrepreneurs' requests to tame the "unruly" water features in the Cauca region. 107 Though the Lilienthal Plan did initially contemplate complimentary works like drainage channels, pumping stations, and dikes to accompany the construction of the Salvajina Dam, governance issues prevented the majority of these projects from being implemented. 108 Instead of creating a complete set of projects that would fulfill all aspects of the CVC's mission, the purpose of the Salvajina Dam was reduced to optimizing the river's carrying capacity and ensuring that Cauca's sugarcane farms would continue to have an adequate water supply.…”

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“…117 Sugarcane producers credit the Salvajina Dam as realizing "the agrarian prosperity of Valle de Cauca, and further praise the CVC as "eminent," a "pioneer," and displaying "outstanding intelligence" in its engineering ability. 118 In stark contrast, Afro Colombian and indigenous communities in Cauca view the Salvajina Dam as a "turning point that led to their decline." 119 According to these communities, the control over the Cauca River that the CVC and the sugarcane industry sought to achieve through the Salvajina Dam had important negative impacts.…”

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“…The sugar industry represents one of Colombia's most powerful and wellorganized economic sectors and has exerted incredible influence over the CVC and its supervision of the Salvajina Dam. 121 Though Law 99 mandates the inclusion of other actors on the CVC's board, these opposing views have not yet been successful as sugarcane growers on the CVC's board of directors have been able to use their influence to oppose plans that did not promote agricultural activities. 122 As a result of this limited input, the Salvajina Dam does not incorporate local values, priorities, and interests and has not facilitated a discussion about the region's broader development plan.…”

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Dirty Practices for Clean Energy: Indigenous Communities Gain no Benefits and Suffer Decades of Harms from the Salvajina Dam in Cauca, Colombia

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2019

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The Indigenous Community of Cerro Tijeras is part of the Nasa indigenous people located in Southwest Colombia. After years of resisting colonialism, the destruction of their land, and the erasure of their cultural practices, the Salvajina Dam has further jeopardized their way of life. The government ordered the Salvajina Dam to be built in the 1980s to control the Cauca River’s flow and improve agriculture. However, for the Cerro Tijeras indigenous community, whose land is in the surrounding area of the Salvajina Dam, its effects were detrimental. For decades, Cerro Tijeras has had to deal with the consequences of a major infrastructure project about which they were not consulted and provides virtually no positive effects for their community. The Salvajina Dam created a severe mobility issue for the ethnic groups surrounding it. The people of Cerro Tijeras, who once were able to use boats to cross the river year-round, are now at the mercy of the Salvajina Dam’s changing water levels. EPSA, the current majority owner of the Salvajina Dam, has provided only one stop for its boat (planchón) to reach the Cerro Tijeras indigenous community and its schedule is extremely limited. The restricted schedule of the planchones along with the removal of roads and bridges to cross the reservoir has made mobility in the region extremely difficult.

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Section: Cerro Tijeras and The Nasa Way Of Lifementioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Key Players In Indigenous Resistance and Protection § § Regimentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Boxmentioning

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Section: Boxmentioning

confidence: 99%

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confidence: 99%

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Ríos y reconciliación profunda: la reconstrucción de la memoria socio-ecológica en tiempos de conflicto y “transición” en Colombia

Lyons¹

2019

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En Colombia hay un creciente debate público sobre el reconocimiento de la naturaleza como víctima de la guerra y sobre las consecuentes acciones de reparación en el marco del pos-Acuerdo de Paz y la justicia transicional. Estas incluyen la llamada “reconstrucción de la memoria ambiental” de la guerra. A partir de un proyecto de reconstrucción de memoria socioecológica de la cuenca del río Mandur, en Puerto Guzmán, Putumayo, este artículo argumenta cómo un proyecto comunitario de investigación acción participativa sobre la memoria del conflicto y su relación con la degradación socioambiental constituye una estrategia metodológica alternativa para la reconciliación y la construcción de paz territorial. Así mismo, propone que este ejercicio es necesario para la construcción de una “reconciliación profunda” a partir del mejoramiento de los conflictos.

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Making Space for the Cauca River in Colombia

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Dirty Practices for Clean Energy: Indigenous Communities Gain no Benefits and Suffer Decades of Harms from the Salvajina Dam in Cauca, Colombia

Dirty Practices for Clean Energy: Indigenous Communities Gain no Benefits and Suffer Decades of Harms from the Salvajina Dam in Cauca, Colombia

Decolonizing local planning through new social cartography: making Black geographies visible in a plantation context in Colombia

Ríos y reconciliación profunda: la reconstrucción de la memoria socio-ecológica en tiempos de conflicto y “transición” en Colombia

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