This article describes the process of legal contention between civil society, political parties, and state institutions for the baldíos lands in the Colombian Altillanura region in the last two decades, a region considered the country’s “last agricultural frontier.” The article focuses on the dual and sometimes contradictory roles of the state institutions, both as facilitators of baldíos grabbing and as guarantors of the peasants’ legal land rights. It analyzes the different attempts by the Colombian government to remove the legal limitations to land accumulation and the resistance put up by civil society and the political parties, which resorted to the existing legal mechanisms to deactivate those attempts. The results reveal the two-sided role of the state: while the government introduces legal changes to facilitate baldíos grabbing, state bodies are actively denouncing and sanctioning illegalities or ruling in favor of peasants deprived of their lands.

本文描述了过去 20 年公民社会、政党和国家机构之间为哥伦比亚阿尔蒂亚努拉地区的 baldíos 土地而进行的法律争论的过程，该地区被认为是该国的“最后的农业前沿”。这篇文章着重于国家机构的双重角色，有时甚至是相互矛盾的角色，既是巴尔迪奥斯掠夺的促进者，又是农民合法土地权利的保障者。它分析了哥伦比亚政府为取消对土地积累的法律限制而进行的各种尝试，以及民间社会和政党的抵制，后者诉诸现有的法律机制来阻止这些尝试。结果揭示了国家的双重作用：当政府引入法律变革以促进秃头掠夺时，