This article observes and analyzes how in contexts of dispossession promoted by the development of extractive-mining activities, as in this case, there is a difficulty in thinking about the reality in motion and the deployment of the potentiality ofthe subjects in the territory. This concealment of them can be understood from the dialectical movement called control over presence and absence, according to which, presence affirms everything related to modernity (instrumental rationality, linear vision of history, emphasis on the notions of progress and development) and its Salvationist rhetoric (where mega-mining would play a leading role), while control over the absence, reinforces the obstruction of the recovery of the ancestral and collective memory of the territory. This last movement makes sure to control the absence of everything associated with coloniality. In this dynamic, the memory of the territory, the potentiality of the subjects that inhabit it, and with it, the possibility of projecting another possible horizon, are underestimated.
