I am a Colombian anthropologist from Bogotá, Colombia. I research and work on interrelated human rights and environmental issues, which I intend to study from the perspective of the academic disciplines of legal anthropology and political ecology. I have focused my attention to this point on two issues. The first is the appropriation of undelimited floodplain lakes (“cienagas”) located in the north of my country, which was the subject of the thesis I wrote for obtaining my master’s degree in Rural Development at the National University of Colombia. The second is the passive stance of international agencies regarding the exponential expansion of clientelist practices in the National Human Rights Institution of Colombia, a public institution where I used to work. The later is the topic of the dissertation I am currently writing in order to obtain my degree in the Erasmus Mundus Master’s Programme in Human Rights Policy and Practice.
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The Challenges and Socio-Ecological Importance of Delimiting Colombia’s Wetlands
Artisanal fishermen are advocating for the demarcation of the ciénagas – the natural environment which feeds them, provides them protection from flooding in the rainy seasons and whose amphibious shores are where they cultivate seasonal crops.
January 7, 2026
