El paro cívico de 2017 en buenaventura, colombia. Protesta social y transformación del poder político

Colombia is a country with multiple expressions of social protest across its history. A recent one was the civic strike that occurred between May 16th and June 6th of 2017 in Buenaventura (Colombian Pacific). This article analyzes the particularities of the Paro, understanding it as a moment of inflection in the middle of a critical situation the territory and their inhabitants were going through. Likewise, the strike was fundamental for thenegotiation model and the dialogue scenarios it fostered, as well as for the civic movement that leveraged it. Alongside the transformation of the local political power. The combination of these events had positive electoral results, in October 2019, for those who promoted the protest from the beginning. This article is a product of the revision and analysis of documental and fieldwork sources within the framework of two research projects: one in execution (2019-2021) and another one finished (2016-2019).