Border integration a retrospective on the northern border Ecuador - Colombia

Abstract

The issue related to Ecuadorian-Colombian border integration is a topic of continuous discussion in the international relations of both countries, its coverage and especially its spectrum towards society makes it a sensitive issue of huge importance. The present work is the result of the research called "The integrationists Ecuador and Colombia, a retrospective of the processes of border integration, study period 1990 – 2018" and which aimed to focus on the vision and action of Ecuadorian and Colombian characters who contributed to the carrying out actions for the welfare of the border towns, their gaze towards the cultural contribution, sports, social, economic and even historical, very little researched and disseminated at the academic level. It was based on a bibliographic and hemerographic review and compilation, which is very scarce. In addition, the researchers carried out fieldwork with unstructured interviews with outstanding figures who still live in the provinces of Carchi and Imbabura (Ecuador) and the department of Nariño (Colombia); the data were tabulated and analyzed using the Atlas Ti software and whose results were paraphrased after the respective analysis. From this perspective, it was possible to verify that the cultural, social and economic wealth that the nations lived and are living has a hidden strength in terms of integration, each citizen is an integrationist protagonist for the formal or informal action that makes and gives life to the peoples from the field in which they contextualize their actions. In addition, governments encourage progress with the execution of presidential cabinets that until a certain moment contribute to the progress of border nations, but it is necessary to follow up on proactive execution based on the powers that each agency or citizen can carry out.