Resisting Energy Transition? Understanding Roadblocks in Northern Colombia

La Guajira in northern Colombia has seen a dispro­portionate number of road­blocks recently, especially connected to wind park construction sites, staged by people demand­ing that the state implement economic, social, and physi­cal security improvements. This conflict is an example of local impacts of the global energy transition on historic­ally marginalized people. In this Spotlight we argue that La Guajira is a prime case showing how the energy transit­ion is leveraged to indirectly address the state through private companies.