On the way to solidarity economy

The Guanentá, Comunera and Vélez provinces in the south of the department of Santander – Colombia, are home of a process where the socio-organizational structure of their habitants and solidarity economy in the form of cooperatives have tried to mark the contemporary history of this region, breaking paradigms, for example, through a financial economic system, managed by people’s cooperatives for the people and the construction of a solidary territory with a logic of development that departs from the territory and the identity and culture of its habitants.