![]() ![]() This model had been greatly successful for a large portion of new Christian and mestizo origin population settled mainly in the mountain ranges located on the western and eastern banks of the Magdalena River, in what is now called the Andean Region.Īt least 60% of what would become the Colombian population lived in such a closed and self-sufficient way, from the 16th to the 20th centuries, that the structural change that came after affected it severely.ĭespite the fact that many authors tend to allocate the causes of the Colombian conflict to the so-called “objective” factors, such as poverty and exclusion (which are not absolutely so), the lack of infrastructures, the structural weakness of the secular State, the insufficient industrialization, the isolation of the regions and a slow assimilation of modernity, could also be considered amongst its remote causes. In Colombia, the bill of colonial life extended to almost a century after the Independence, due to the inertia caused by the physical and mental isolation of the smallholdings village model – typical of the Colonial times. ![]()
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