The Amazon and border form an intriguing dyad that sharpens the curiosity of
researchers as it presents specific dynamics. The Amazon border between
Tabatinga, Benjamin Constant, in Brazil; Leticia in Colombia; Iceland and Santa
Rosa in Peru enters in this perspective because it contains different variables from
those found in other territories of the nations. In the beginning of this region the
peoples that lived there formed a society, separated by their ethnic groups,
languages and customs. With the arrival of the state and therefore of capital in the
region, the dynamics of society changes and new values are absorbed by the
Amazonian community. Therefore, in other terms, there is segregation of this society
in Brazilians, Colombians and Peruvians, marked mainly by the languages of their
colonizers. With the complexity of the new society in this region, complex problems
arise that will require the state's strategies to solve them. In order to try to understand
this social dynamics, a methodological cut was made in the field of health, where it
was observed that Brazilians, Colombians and Peruvians use the official health
systems available in the three frontiers to solve their health problems, disregarding
the rules imposed by the respective states -nation. Through an interdisciplinary and
comparative approach was obtained information, which allowed to understand in part
these social relations, given the impossibility of understanding society in its fullness.
It is concluded that despite the coercive forces of the state and capital that imposes
political-administrative dynamics in the sense of segregation over the populations
living there, their symbolic, historical, cultural ties do not recognize this segregation
and consider themselves as unique peoples.
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