Context: origins, actors, causes and consequences of the conflict.

1. Teaching social justice in the EFL classroom
within the Colombian post conflict
María del Pilar Fernández Pedraza M.A.
Leidy Yisel Gómez-Vásquez M.A.
1. CONTEXT STATION

2. Understanding the context:
SOMETHING ABOUT SAN CARLOS, ANTIOQUIA
San Carlos is a municipality part of the sub-region of Eastern
Antioquia well-known as the hydro-electrical capital of Colombia due
to its strategic location. San Carlos is a town with great variety of
natural resources: beautiful woods, natural reserves, rivers and
waterfalls, as well as fertile lands that allow the community to
produce coffee, sugarcane, potato and corn.
Unfortunately, due to its strategic location,
San Carlos became the main objective of
different armed groups that wanted to have
control over the territory to impose their
ideologies and benefit their own interests
in detriment of the civil society.

3. Introduction to the events
Watch the first part of the video called “San Carlos-
memories of war exodus” (0:00 – 5:00 minutes) and
correctly identify the period in which each event
happened.
bit.do/sancarlosexodus

4. Organizing the events
Using www.sutori.com/dashboard place in the
timeline the following pictures and descriptions
taking into account the correct order according to
the previous video.
Download the images here:
bit.do/imagestml

5. Bloc Metro from the United Self-Defense Forces of
Colombia (AUC) arrived coming from Middle
Magdalena to eradicate the guerrilla due to its
sabotage to infrastructures of the region and their
destabilizing effects.
Image taken from:http://palabrasalmargen.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/R%C3%A9gis-Paramilitares-
Autodefensas-Unidas-Colombia-AUC_ECDIMA20170612_0007_21.jpg

6. Jesús Abad Colorado
FARC and ELN arrived in the territory and
took total control of San Carlos
neutralizing and expelling the authorities
Image taken from: http://www.banrepcultural.org/coleccion-de-arte-banco-de-la-republica/sites/default/files/obra/AP5442-_0.jpg

7. Disputes between FARC and ELN started. Both
armed groups developed war actions against the
community what contributed to a new type of
displacement.
Image taken from:http://www.elchaco.info/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/GUERRILLEROS.jpg

8. Inhabitants were forced to sell their lands and leave their
home to allow the construction of the three Hydroelectric
power plans located in the municipality (San Carlos, Calderas
and Playas). There was no relocation of the community, land
exchange or compensation.
Image taken from: https://www.isagen.com.co/SitioWeb/documents/21223/29164/central-hidroelectrica-san-carlos.jpg

9. The army used to take peasants from Panela Farms near San
Carlos to Samaná in order to hand them over the AUC so that
they killed them claiming that these farmers belong to the
guerrila.
Image taken from: http://resistenciacivildemocratica.org/terrorismo/terror1998.php

10. Social movements (e.g. Movimiento de Acción San Carlitana) were
created to defend people’s social, economic and political interests.
Unfortunately, traditional political movements did not approve
such social actions. Threats and selective murders to civic leaders
started to take place and, consequently, many of them had to flee
to other regions to be safe.
Image taken from: http://humanidadespatoroa.blogspot.com/2014/10/los-movimientos-sociales.html

11. Enforced disappearances, selective murders, eviction orders,
extortion, deprivation of possessions, roadblocks, confinement and
mined fields were some of the actions of a fear-based strategy.
Image taken from: http://s3.amazonaws.com/elcomun/carpeta_ckfinder/files/andres/bultos.jpg

12. Analyzing the events:
1. Analyze deeply the information in order to identify
the causes, consequences and the actors of the
armed conflict in this particular context.
2. Split the work by making sure one of the students is
in charge of analyzing the causes, the other the
consequences and the other the actors involved.
3. Be ready to socialize your work in a plenary