VOLUNTARY ERADICATION OF CROPS DECLARED ILLEGAL IN COLOMBIA: OF THE ALTERNATE PLAN TO REPLACE THE NATIONAL PROGRAM

Abstract This paper analyzes the mitigation policies of illegal cropping expansion in Colombia in the period 1990 to 2018 from the literature review and document analysis. It contrasted the hegemonic militarist and prohibitionist perspective with local alternatives that aim an integral confrontation of the structural problems of Colombian rurality. The historicity of the Alternate Plan, driven by governors of producing territories, and the National Comprehensive Program for the Substitution of Illicit Crops, derived from the 2016 peace agreement, reveals the hegemony of the United States prohibitionism. This preponderance affects Colombia as well as Latin America because of drug agendas, security and border control constitute the US geopolitics.