The nationalism turn provoked by the Enlightenment allowed the shift of the limitless authority of religious institutions to geographically defined space. During the construction of these national imagined communities (Anderson 1983), alternative forms of loyalties were also rising and posing a challenge to the future national institutions. In Colombia, since the beginning of the state-making process, several civilian wars limited the formation of a cohesive civil society that recognized itself under a common law, in fact the centralized state failed in representing and solving many of the regional conflicts where often state itself was the main threat. In order to respond to many injustices peasants organized themselves in guerrilla movements and started moving offensives against those discussing their land rights.