ANALYSIS OF THE ARTICLE Socio-environmental conflicts over water in La Guajira, Danilo Urrea / Inés Calvo, Colombia, September 12, 2014. In our country mining extraction is a source of income that leaves considerable resources to the state, something that has brought economic benefits to the Colombian population; but behind this has also generated social, demographic and environmental damage to the populations where the extraction of minerals such as coal, oil and others is carried out. It is in the departments of Cesar and Guajira where the effects are more direct. Causes -The governments of Presidents Álvaro Uribe and Juan Manuel Santos have handed over territories to private companies through extraction titles and land appropriation, including river waters and subway currents. To achieve this, they have created licensing agencies, the first being the National Environmental Licensing Agency and the National Mining Agency. As a result, exploitation increased from 1.13 million hec...