“I NO LONGER HAVE A HOUSE” DISPOSSESSION AND FORCED DISPLACEMENT: MEXICO, THE CASE OF VERACRUZ This presentation will explore the consequences of forced displacement in various regions of Mexico, with special emphasis on Veracruz in recent decades. This exploration will have necessary references to the case of Colombia, where forced displacement has involved many people, among other cases, whose most significant reason has been the problem of land, its dispossession by paramilitaries, elites and drug traffickers. An example is that in 2021 forced internal displacements in Mexico derived from violence tripled. From the above I will show the different causes of forced displacement in Mexico: the dispossession of land, property, drug trafficking and control of territories and people, religious conflicts, wars as total phenomena, the confluence of another type of crimes that lead to different types of forced displacement: femicides, extortion (collection of flats, fees), threats, homicide, kidnapping, racism, and various forms of spoliation. Some of these expressions will be referred to in the case of Veracruz. As expressions of the phenomenon of forced displacement I will have as necessary references, in addition to the case of Veracruz the southern state of Mexico, Guerrero and Chiapas and some states of northern Mexico. Additionally, a law on forced displacement is stalled in the national congress, which has not made it possible to address and focus public policies aimed at people who suffer and have suffered forced displacement. Even though it is a phenomenon that is difficult to record due to the very characteristics of the event, there are no approximate figures for the number of affected populations. It continues to be an invisible event and therefore seems “not to exist.” What is evident in anthropological work is that it is an extremely disruptive, traumatic event for the people who experience it.