Abstract

PECAUT, Daniel. BETWEEN POLITICAL POLARIZATION AND SOCIAL PROTEST. anal.polit. [online]. 2021, vol.34, n.102, pp.175-189.  Epub Feb 06, 2022. ISSN 0121-4705.  https://doi.org/10.15446/anpol.v34n102.99940.

The social movement that shook Colombia between April and May 2021 is unprecedented for its breadth and for the violence of the repression that accompanied it. Commentators see a rebellion of the “youth” there. Nevertheless, the term covers very different realities. The article emphasizes above all the double context in which it takes place. On the one hand, an intense political polarization provoked by the rejection of the Havana Agreements: the tensions that arise from there accentuate the ongoing institutional weakening; on the other, an equally intense social polarization, which certainly comes from afar, but which explodes with the pandemic... and with the demobilization of the farc. The author argues that both this violence and the recent armed conflict have been guarantees for maintaining the social status quo for the benefit of the elites-if only because they favor the disorganization of the popular classes. From a certain moment on, the inability of the State to be present over a large part of the territory and the growth of the drug economy translate into a proliferation of nuclei of violence. Instead of offering the opportunity to reinforce the national symbolism, the Agreements ultimately engender new fragmentations.

Keywords : Social mobilization; conflict; Colombia; political polarization; pandemic..

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