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Abstract
This study aimed to find answers to different questions related to the
phenomenon which links family farmers to the poppy cultivation. Particularly, it
was aimed to find whether the rationality to be imposed by the development strategy
of the illicit drugs combat policy is compatible with the dynamics of the problem and
why its actions are sustained even when their failure is evident. A case study in the
Silvia municipality, Cauca Department, southern region of Colombia, was used as a research strategy. Being this a problem which can not be simply reduced to a matter
of legality or income, within this perspective, this research represents a reflection that
brings together the conflict, heterogeneity and similarities in the manifestations of the
“new countryside” in the territories of Latin America, in the context of contemporary
capitalism. Results show that the verified failure of the illicit drugs combat policy in
Colombia proves important inconsistencies between the rationality of policy formulators
and the dynamic of the territories concerned with the phenomenon.