Territorial conflicts in the community of Wasakín, municipality of Rosita, North Atlantic Autonomous Region (RAAN)

Abstract

This study of territorial conflicts in Wasakin community, municipality of Rosita, North Autonomous Atlantic Region (RAAN), was mainly descriptive; the analysis and assessment of such problems until 2006, have described the consequences and proposals to be able to find a solution to the conflict. It is a case study of Cultural Anthropology, with the assistance of the sciences of Ethnography, History, and Geography to study conflicts that are caused by land resource. The results reveal that the main factor of conflicts have been the Mestizos from the Pacific of Nicaragua, who arrived between 1916 and 1957, seeking for better living conditions. Since then, other waves of immigration have been created (1990), which have caused social and environmental conflicts for the competition of resources, land, forests, and rivers in an asymmetric social context. Politically, the conflicts have been rooted in the national government due to the disrespect and violation of the rights of indigenous peoples, by handing over the exploitation of natural resources to foreigners, mainly by the absence of formal demarcation and titling of their territories.