Resumen

GUISAO-ALVAREZ, Juan-Daniel. Insurgency in the Newspaper Press of Medellin and Bogota in the 60s, a Danger to the Stability of the State?. Hist. Soc. [online]. 2022, n.43, pp.117-140.  Epub 22-Ago-2022. ISSN 0121-8417.  https://doi.org/10.15446/hys.n43.99699.

This article describes, from historiography, how news related to insurgency were covered and published in Colombian newspapers during the 1960s, with the aim of debating if this was a danger to the stability of the State. Two national newspapers, defenders of the prevailing social order, were reviewed: El Colombiano from Medellin and El Tiempo from Bogota. The review period was from January 1, 1960 to December 31, 1971; the aim was to investigate the entire decade and analyze the coverage of the 1971 general strike. The ability the insurgents had, according to the facts that the press attributed to them, to influence the debate of the period, which was the "level" of power they had to generate danger to the public was studied. It is concluded that, although there are many mentions of insurgency and its dangers, the events covered required a low level of capacity and are disconnected from both a military and operational logic, so it is not considered that the insurgents at the time had the conditions of power reported in the media, as they were not a danger to the stability of the State.

Palabras clave : social conflict; insurgency; counterinsurgency; newspaper; public opinion; mass communications; Cold War; psychological warfare; revolution; Colombia; 20^th Century.

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