Complicidad empresarial con grupos paramilitares: un análisis al caso colombiano

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Spanish Abstract: Este trabajo tiene como principal proposito mostrar un panorama general de la responsabilidad de las empresas en la financiacion del paramilitarismo, para sus actividades antisubversivas, en distintos departamentos del pais que durante anos han experimentado el conflicto armado interno. Para ello, se hace un breve recuento del origen del paramilitarismo y de su vinculacion con empresas desde los anos ochenta hasta la primera decada del 2000. Asimismo, se obtienen de las denuncias realizadas ante la Fiscalia General de la Nacion (FGN), los bloques paramilitares que recibieron apoyo, en que zonas y que sectores son financiadores. Por ultimo, se muestra una relacion de variables de afectacion como desplazamiento, desapariciones, homicidios o amenazas, que se compara con los casos de complicidad empresarial en la reciente violencia. English Abstract: This work provides an overview of the responsibility of some companies in financing the anti-subversive activities of paramilitary groups in different departments of Colombia affected by internal armed conflict for several years. The authors present a brief description of the origins of paramilitary activities and study the links of paramilitary organizations with some companies during the 80s, 90s and the first decade of the 2000s. Besides, this work provides evidence of criminal complaints filed before the Attorney General’s Office (Fiscalia General de la Nacion), the report of paramilitary blocks that received financial support, their geographical areas of influence, and the economic sectors engaged in their financing. Finally, a list of variables such as forced displacement, disappearances, homicides or threats is presented and then compared with cases of corporate complicity in the recent period of violence in Colombia.