Abstract

ARGUELLO CABRERA, Libertad. Political Violence and Impunity in Atoyac de Álvarez, Guerrero. The Difficult Social Processing of a Counterinsurgent Past (2000-2014). Secuencia [online]. 2018, n.102, pp.257-284. ISSN 2395-8464.  https://doi.org/10.18234/secuencia.v0i102.1517.

The case of Atoyac de Álvarez, a mountain municipality on the Costa Grande of Guerrero, ravaged by guerrillas and counterinsurgents during the second half of the 20th century, allows us to analyze how the dynamics of violence and impunity continue to shape the institutional and social sphere to process violent pasts. On the basis of an interdisciplinary dialogue between history and sociology, the interweaving of various macro and meso sociopolitical conditions that hamper the processing of this past at a local level, in a period that ranges from the alternation of the party in federal executive power (2000) to the delivery of the final report of the Truth Commission for Guerrero (2014). The research shows that struggles for truth and justice are cut through by a situation of chronic violence, fueled by deep sociopolitical antagonisms, precarious personal security conditions and slow, selective institutional actions.

Keywords : chronic violence; impunity; counterinsurgency; truth and justice; Guerrero.