Iras y resistencias de larga duración en el Pacífico colombiano: Los paros cívicos de Buenaventura y Quibdó (1964-2017)

In May 2017, two civic strikes occurred in Buenaventura and Quibdó, Colombia. Amid large cycles of global protest, these contentious collective actions demonstrated, once again, the failure of state promises made for decades to the inhabitants of the Colombian Pacific region. Based on historical-sociological information, we used qualitative-discursive analysis of archival sources, databases, and secondary material, as well as critical Latin American perspectives, to seek to carry out a processual and relational reading of social protest in the Pacific between 1964 and 2017. Our main conclusion is that the various events and struggles that took place during these 53 years constituted moments of historical, political, and cultural condensation of localized, micropolitical, and communal anger and resistance, from which some key challenges appear for the Pacific region and the country.