How a Town Became Massacrable. An Approach to Stigmatization, Hatred and Revenge in the Case of El Salado
Keywords:
necropower, necroaesthetics, economy of hate, affections, revengeAbstract
When looking at the El Salado massacre, we wonder about the factors that led this town of los Montes de María, in the context of the rural war in Colombia at the end of the 20th century, to become a military objective by the A.U.C (Autodefensas Unidas de Colombia), that is, to receive the brand or stigma of ‘guerrilla people’; that is, to become a massacrable town. This article tries to address this issue, thus analyzing the consequences of the FARC occupation since its entry into the region in the nineties. Ways like this Farean power had warmer logic and left little room for maneuver and freedom for the residents of El Salado; The saladeros had no choice or freedom, and cohabitation was confused with collaboration, passivity with belonging. In a second part, it reviews the effects of the brutal attack by the FARC against a certain group of
residents (especially, ranchers and the military); In a way, the 2000 massacre, carried out by the AUC, was an inordinately hateful response to excessive violence by the FARC in the years before the massacre. In this section, we talk about the hatred and
revenge that constitute elements that contributed decisively —among others— to the 2000 massacre. The elaborations on the economy of hate by Sara Ahmed (2015) and the elaborations of Laura Quintana on affects (2020 and 2021) will be fundamental.
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