Incidencia de los actores armados ilegales en la tributación minera de los municipios auríferos de Antioquia 2007 - I. 2012

Abstract

Submerged in an armed conflict, and guided by a political model that searches to profit from the mining boom in pro of Colombia’s development, illegal dynamics have been adapted where the Illegal Armed Actors (I.A.A.), like the "Stationary bandits", are adapting to the new market dynamics where the profit, equity, and financing are the principal objective. In the department of Antioquia this situation exists since the formation of its regions, such as the case of the Bajo Cauca and the Nordeste Antioqueño.

Thus, the innovation within the armed conflict, and which has a direct relation with the gold mining, is the high probability for the I.A.A. to be directing their efforts to convert this as their principal way of funding as a consequence of 2 important facts: 1) The success generated by the war against drug trafficking, and the illicit crops. 2) The high price of gold in the international market and its predictions for the near future which are within $2000 and $2107 per pound. Following this order of ideas, the reader will find how the I.A.A. act as stationary bandits which applying "illegal mining" as a principal source of their economy. The I.A.A. influence within the fiscal policies from the para-tributacion or "protection tax", money laundering and royalties; where the end is to finance their criminal activities, negatively affecting the policies of the regional governments which are characterized by their low capability of management.