La invisibilización de la desaparición forzada. ¿Por qué nos cuesta tanto su reconocimiento social?
A ghost runs through Latin America: enforced disappearance is a past that is perpetuated in the present, from the military dictatorships of the southern cone and the Central American civil wars to the Colombian armed conflict and the drug war in México. More than 80,000 forced disappeared persons qu...
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| Language: | English |
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Centre de Recherches sur les Mondes Américains
2023-06-01
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| Series: | Nuevo mundo - Mundos Nuevos |
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| Online Access: | https://journals.openedition.org/nuevomundo/92994 |
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| Summary: | A ghost runs through Latin America: enforced disappearance is a past that is perpetuated in the present, from the military dictatorships of the southern cone and the Central American civil wars to the Colombian armed conflict and the drug war in México. More than 80,000 forced disappeared persons question Colombian society that refuses to recognize. Why are we having trouble doing it? This article proposes seven interpretative hypotheses for their understanding beyond the indifference and social normalization of violence: its late and recent recognition, the participation of state agent by action or omission, the plurality of violence as context, the incidence of denialism from the armed conflict, the criminalization and stigmatization of the victims, the social marginality, the anonymity of the victims, and the asymmetries of public policies to deal with the different types of violent acts. |
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| ISSN: | 1626-0252 |