Colombian state reactions to peace: the legacies of the narcoguerrilla-narcoterrorist discourses

Autor: Machuca Pérez, Diana Ximena
Zdroj: Journal of Political Power; January 2022, Vol. 15 Issue: 1 p123-144, 22p
Abstrakt: ABSTRACTFor years, the Colombian state maintained its position about how the guerrillas’ involvement with drug trafficking has made them lose their political and/or ideological nature. Political and military sectors supported this approach and used the term narco-guerrillaor narco-terrorists. The peace process initiated in 2012 during the Santos administration seemed to alter this narrative. This article analyzes how Colombia’s peace process had a contradictory effect on the ‘narco-terrorist’ characterization of the FARC-EP: it opened windows of opportunity both for more peace-prone discourses and for an even more virulent version of the criminalization of the guerrillas.
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