Entre a potência do Norte e a insurgência : a Colômbia e a policialização da sua Marinha de Guerra(1986-2016)

Abstract

The aim of this investigation is to explain the reasons for the policialization process of the Colombian Navy in the period from 1986 to 2016. The main external and internal actors were used, respectively, the United States of America (USA) and the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia – People's Army (in portuguese, FARC-EP). The connections between these influencers and the shaping of the country's Naval Force occurred through the phenomenon of drug trafficking and terrorism. Structured in diachronic understandings and analyses, the study obtained as a valid result the fact that the intimate historical relationship between Colombia and the USA, combined with the implementation of the American National Security Strategy, was the main external cause. The necessary condition for North Americans to provide means to Colombians was only verified until the beginning of the 2000s. The sufficient requirement of convergence of purpose of the threats to the State, constituted by drug trafficking and terrorism, with emphasis on the first, remained throughout of the entire period (1986- 2016). In relation to the FARC-EP, the increase in power obtained by the insurgency, especially due to its involvement in drug trafficking, was confirmed as a central internal cause only between 1995 and 2010.