Sumario: | The Special Indigenous Jurisdiction is the most important of all the rights previously acquired by indigenous Colombians in the 1991 Constitution, since it starts out as a territorial framework, within which recognizes the autonomous practice of government, cultural life, and management fiscal and legal. Certainly the Article 7th Constitutional recognizes the cultural diversity of the Colombian people, but not for the existence of joint, on the contrary, the 18 items considered as �special� because of their relevance to the preservation of indigenous communities must be consistent absolute correspondence with the Constitution while recognizing, protecting and preserving the otherness, it does from legitimate parameters that define the levels of autonomy, finally, enforcing a condition of dependency both mainstream society and the state itself. The JEI is based on the original and natural character of its residents, that is, some form of protection that still survive ancestral, which ends up being a condition that hinders the exchange, co-direct, especially in terms of participation and benefits, not only to society but also to the state.
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