Estado, violencia y víctimas

Respuestas ciudadanas frente al performance de la guerra

Abstract

this article discusses the political impact of organized citizenship in the face of the considerable increase in insecurity, violence and the proliferation of victims provoked by the war against drug trafficking that President Felipe Calderón promoted during the period 2006-2012 in Mexico. The Movement for Peace with Justice and Dignity (MPJD) was the most visible expression in the public space that managed to articulate a diversity of civil actors with the purpose of changing the official discourse. This one, based on a cultural performance tried to invest of a sacred authority to the project but ended up considering the victims as collateral damage, before which the MPJD gave them visibility and demanded justice. This emerging social movement initiated the largest mobilization of protest against violence at the national level, as well as a phenomenon that had not previously been observed: the possibility of direct dialogue with the Federal Government through dialogue.