CRIMINALITY IN THE AMAZON:

THE CASE OF THE INDIGENOUS PUEBLO KOFÁN ON THE COLOMBO-ECUATORIAN FRONTER FROM A CRIMINOLOGY OF THE SUR

Abstract

Criminal governance in Amazonia is expressed in the so-called criminality, convergence of crimes and illegal social orders that are modalities of these new shared sovereignties established by armed actors, shell companies, complicit states, co-opted governments and communities that contribute to exploiting and despoiling strategic natural resources for transnational capital that faces the limitation of restrictive national and international legal orders. From a perspective of southern criminology, the phenomenon of the legal, geographic, cultural border that facilitates the dispossession and the occurrence of crimes against nature among state, corporate and social agents, legal or illegal, is approached. From the study of the case of the Kofán indigenous pueblo, the scope and impacts of legal decolonization, its effectiveness in the contention and judicialization of ecological, cultural and environmental crimes in the Colombia-Ecuador border region were reviewed.