enabled it as a guiding framework for rural development public policies in most latin american countries.This paper follows a qualitative theoretical-explanatory approach, relying on a broad bibliographic review on critical agrarian geography, decoloniality and internal colonialism, which brings a cross-cutting view on post-development approaches.by deconstructing dTr we expect its role as a promoter and camouflager of the capitalist/ patriarchal, Western-centric/Christian-centric, modern/colonial world system.