This research is a processual analysis of the political and territorial configurations of northern Cauca, with the aim of understanding youth agencies from a generational perspective from the 1990s to the present. The idea is to understand five problems that were identified in my two-year work in the region (territorial dispossession, difficulty in accessing education, reduced work options, identity and the growing phenomena of violence) throughout three generations: the youth of the 90s, those who were young in 2000 and the current youth people of the region. The central question of the research aims to understand how the dispossessions of northern Cauca have affected the youth populations and how they have managed political and territorial transformations in the towns. The analysis starts from the problem of territorial dispossession in the region, as a result of the accelerated expansion of the sugar monoculture, then, it analyzes different faces of dispossession in the three later generations. Talking about young people in northern Cauca nowadays necessarily means referring to the phenomenon of increasing violence in the region. However, despite dispossession, loss of ontological securities, denial of basic rights, structural exclusions and the reduced options towards illegality; it is necessary to highlight the creative and transforming capacity of the youth agencies in this region and also analyze these processes historically to see the current phenomena faced by young people who find their answers in northern Cauca history.