Movimiento Armado Quintin Lame
The Quintin Lame Armed Movement (
General info
Quintin Lame Armed Movement (Movimiento Armado Quintin Lame, MAQL) was founded in 1984 as an indigenous guerrilla movement that operated in the department of Cauca, a province in south central Colombia that is 40 percent indigenous and characterized by large landholdings, unequal land tenure, and conflict between indigenous reservations and landowners. The Quintin Lame was initially organized as a movement to extend indigenous lands through land invasions and to defend indigenous communities from hostile attacks from landowners, the military, government officials, and other guerrilla movements. The group negotiated with the Gaviria administration from August 1990 to May 1991, leading to its demobilisation and simultaneous participation in the Constituent Assembly. Their presence in the Assembly contributed to the fact that indigenous issues were prominently addressed, and major concessions and rights were incorporated into the Constitution of 1991.[1]
History
In 1974 in the south of Colombia, an indigenous peasant group known as
Demobilisation
During May 1991, following negotiation with the government, the Quintin Lame Armed Movement leadership decided to enter into the process of
Notes
- ^ Cynthia Arnson, Comparative peace processes in Latin America, Stanford University Press, 1999, p. 200.
- ^ The International Encyclopedia of Revolution and Protest, http://www.blackwellreference.com/public/tocnode?id=g9781405184649_chunk_g97814051846491235
- ^ "Negociación y desmovilización con grupos armados (M-19, Epl, Prt, Maql y Crs)". 2012-11-18.
- ^ Richard Bourdreaux, Colombia Moves a Step Closer to Peace, Los Angeles Times, May 28, 1991, http://articles.latimes.com/1991-05-28/news/mn-2568_1_political-party
Further reading
- Cynthia Arnson, Comparative peace processes in Latin America, Stanford University Press, 1999
- Kay B. Warren, Jean Elizabeth Jackson, Indigenous movements, self-representation, and the state in Latin America, University of Texas Press, 2002