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The Colombian Pacific is a territory-region occupied mostly by black communities that have a traditional way of life based on fishing, agriculture and traditional extractivism. However, with the arrival of developmental logics, this way of life begins to undergo transformations that place traditional territorialities in confrontation with other logics external to the community. Therefore, the objective here is (1) to characterize the traditional Afro-Colombian way of life, especially in its symbolic relationship with artisanal fishing, (2) to identify fishing territorialities and (3) to analyze the territorial conflicts present in Bahía Solano. For this, fieldwork was carried out with participant observation, ethnographic reports, photodocumentation and interviews with a semi-structured script, with the aim of providing a contribution from an interdisciplinary perspective, still absent in research in this region. It was observed that with the insertion of communities into "external" and more profitable productive logics, such as tourism, drug trafficking and industrial fishing, new territorialities are superimposed. In these new territorialities, as in the more traditional ones, the sea is a necessary element for the reproduction of the Afro-Colombian way of life, especially through work and food. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article carries out a spatial analysis of the Colombian industry, describing the historical processes that shaped the main industrial centres in the country. As well as presenting an analysis of industrial location and relocation during the period 2005-2015. The relocated industries are identified from a data set published by the Colombian Superintendence of Corporations, and then, georeferenced and analysed by using a distance matrix. The study concludes, on the one hand, that Colombian industry is mainly domestic, focused on an internal market located in the main population centres of the country, most of them away from the coastal areas. And, on the other hand, that relocation processes take place in zones close to the habitual locations and are generally promoted by institutional restrictions, such as taxes (tax incentives) or environmental regulations. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

La Luz del Mundo Church, as a Mexican autochthonous religious movement, has presented itself as a unique New Religious Movement. However, a brief look at their self-proclaimed Apostle reveals strong similarities with ancient religions particularly gnosticism. This historical-filological analysis explores key presents those elements, which shape the concept of leadership in this particular sect. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]