Colext/Macondo Cantina virtual de los COLombianos en el EXTerior --------------------------------------------------
Dice Fernando: > muy bonita la hoja de vida de Don Alvaro Uribe. Claro que tiene > unas claras omisiones, y se�alo talvez la m�s importante: fue el > principal promotor de la entrada de las AUC (l�ase paras) al > departamento de Antioquia. Cada cual juzgue si eso es bueno o malo. Aparentemente, en Colombia, los grupos de autodefensa que ha organizado el gobierno (como los de Convivir en Antioquia) no han tenido los resultados previstos. Esto no significa que el concepto es fundamentalmente fallado. Seg�n el siguiente documento de la Corporaci�n Rand, los grupos de "rondas campesinas" en Per� y la "guardia nacional" de los EU (los que hoy d�a cuidan los aeropuertos), si han podido ejercer su funci�n sin abusar los derechos de la ciudadan�a y podr�an servir como modelos para grupos similares en Colombia: <<Convivir units represent another model of self-defense organizations. Convivir, originated in Antioquia in the early 1990s and based on the neighborhood watch concept, was deliberately set up to avoid the appearance of the outlawed paramilitary groups. Convivir was a way of involving people in the struggle against the subversive organizations without organizing them as militias. These groups performed intelligence functions for the security forces and became the targets of guerrilla attack. Unlike the rondas campesinas, the Peruvian community self-defense militias that played a critical role in the defeat of the Shining Path insurgency, the Convivir groups were not allowed to carry rifles or heavier weapons needed to defend them-selves effectively against guerrilla attacks.3 They could carry only side arms. In the mid-1990s, the Colombian government moved to dismantle the self-defense groups. The Convivir groups were de-clared illegal, allegedly on the grounds that some of them had begun to arm themselves unlawfully and had morphed into "illegal" self-defense groups. ...... In view of these circumstances, it may be worth considering whether the policy of discouraging the organization of legal self-defense communities is wise. A network of supervised self-defense organiza-tions on the Peruvian model could provide an alternative to the illegal groups. In the case of Peru, beginning with the administration of Alan Garc�a in the late 1980s and continuing under Fujimori, the Lima government organized and armed some 4000 rondas campesinas, or community self-defense militias. These militias played a decisive role in the defeat of the Peruvian insurgencies.23 In the Colombian situation, a network of properly supervised self-defense organizations could give the state a better handle on the activities of self-organized local groups. Another alternative, suggested by military analyst David Spencer, is the establishment of National Guard units to provide local defense. To establish a National Guard organization, the Colombian military could draw on the pool of trained manpower created by the conscription system now in effect.24 Whatever the modalities, such arrangements might help to create the conditions for a peace agreement by empowering local communities to provide for their security and creating incentives for the guerrillas to negotiate in good faith.>> http://www.rand.org/publications/MR/MR1339/MR1339.ch5.pdf Saludos, Carlos -------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] with UNSUBSCRIBE COLEXT as the BODY of the message. Un archivo de colext puede encontrarse en: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ cortesia de Anibal Monsalve Salazar
