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Historia del paramilitarismo en Colombia History of the paramilitarismo in Colombia

Authors: Edgar de Jesús Velásquez Rivera;

Historia del paramilitarismo en Colombia History of the paramilitarismo in Colombia

Abstract

En Colombia, desde la década de los años ochenta del siglo XX tomó fuerza el paramilitarismo como estrategia contrainsurgente, política que no ha sido reconocida como tal por parte de los distintos gobiernos y se expresa como terrorismo de Estado. Incidió en el surgimiento de tal fenómeno, la ideología anticomunista que profesan la mayoría de miembros de las fuerzas armadas, la cultura política derivada de la violencia, la corrupción y el clientelismo, así como el narcotráfico, al igual que las influencias externas, provenientes principalmente de Francia y Estados Unidos. El paramilitarismo invadió las distintas estructuras del poder estatal, en la perspectiva de configurarse como un proyecto político, militar, social y económico de alcance nacional. Originado, según sus mentores, como una respuesta a los excesos de la guerrilla, el paramilitarismo ha privilegiado, como método de lucha, las masacres, asesinatos selectivos y desplazamientos de población civil, acusados de ser simpatizantes o colaboradores de las guerrillas. Al presidente Álvaro Uribe Vélez, se le atribuye el haber auspiciado el paramilitarismo y de institucionalizarlo en su gestión de gobierno.In Colombia, since the eighties of the XXth century, the paramilitarism has been taking force as a strategy against insurgence, a kind of politics which has not been yet recognized by part of different governments, being expressed State terrorism. It caused the emergence of such a phenomenon named anti-communist ideology, professed by most Armed Forces members, political culture that comes from violence, corruption and clientelism as well as from drug dealing, and external influences, mainly from France and the United States. Paramilitarism has invaded all the different structures of the state power aiming at forming itself as a political, military, social and economic project at national level. According to its mentors, paramilitary groups have resulted from a reaction to the guerrilla movements excesses. Paramilitarism has been choosing, as a fight method, selective massacres, murders and displacements of civil population suspicious of supporting and collaborating with guerrilla groups. President Álvaro Uribe Vélez is accused by his political opponents of sustaining and institutionalizing paramilitary groups.

Keywords

power, violence, violencia, poder, gobierno, D1-2009, government, paramilitares, paramilitary, History (General)

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