Resumen

OSTOS CETINA, María del Pilar. Neighborhood and conflict: a perspective of the relations between Colombia and Ecuador. Latinoamérica [online]. 2010, n.50, pp. 39-57. ISSN 1665-8574.

This article analyzes the development of relations between Colombia and Ecuador from a vision of space, the border and armed conflict. For which resort to its historical, but also mentions the formation of the first armed organizations and their impact on the development sector of the Colombian state and its relationship with neighboring countries; this has led to the formation in Colombia of a territorial fragmentation model inherited from the pre-Columbian and Colonial, which so far during the twenty-first century and has become a kind of armed conflict or civil war, following a political struggle for control of Colombia's territory and its natural resources.

Palabras llave : Frontier; Armed conflict; Fragmented stocking; Military bases.