Colonization, waste land and settlers the case of Carare Santander Colombia 1953-1957
Strategies enforced by General Gustavo Rojas Pinilla’s government between 1953-1957, to achieve the goals of the oriented settling program in the village of Carare, in Santander, Colombia, such as a road plan, colonization and industrialization. Those plans intended to link the region to national and international economy, aiming to provide settlers with better living conditions, through the endowment of productive infrastructure: roads, an airfield, machinery, waste land entitlement, loans, loss or damage risk insurance for agricultural and livestock products, and reproductive infrastructure allocation, such as: building a sanitary station, schools, housing, hotel, church and military bases. Such guidelines contributed not only to bring peace to the region, but also to allow for economic and social possibilities for settlers, which in turn allowed for population increase to the extent that villages like Cimitarra, Landázuri, Puerto Parra and Santa Helena de Opón were erected as municipalities in the next decade.
