Subnacionalismo en la frontera

Abstract

This paper attempts to show that in the border region of the Tachira State (Ve­ n ezuela ) with the North of Santander Department (Columbia) it has appeared manifestations of subnationalism that could be considered a base to build ideas of autonomy or "regionalism", even if the State has kept its power of cohesion and territo­ rial integrity. It refers to feelings of exclusion that come from their respective centres of power, that have allowed the formation of blocks of regional power that use the regio­ nal or border "particularity" to obtain political and economic objectives, difficult to achieve otherwise. It assumes the role of the state as a guarantor of the territorial and population intcgrity, with the objective of exemplifying wi th this frontier region the problems that the States of the Andean sub­ region confront to keep their population and territory cohesive and integrated, using basically ideological, rather than economic and social i nstruments.