Abstract

VICENTE OVALLE, Camilo. Disappearances in Mexico: the Emergence of a Field. Hist. graf [online]. 2021, n.56, pp.53-87.  Epub Feb 23, 2021. ISSN 1405-0927.  https://doi.org/10.48102/hyg.vi56.353.

Recently a social, academical and political field, has been configurated around the enforced disappearances in Mexico. This complex field articulates victims and humans’ rights organizations, scholars and journalist, as well as governmental institutions, is been explained by a hypothesis that considers the transnationalization of the category “original detainee-disappeared”. Neither the hypothesis nor the emergence of the field corresponds to the historical development of the disappearance in Mexico. Considered these factors, and also the long history of the enforced disappearances in Mexico, this article proposes an analysis of the conditions that didn’t allow the configuration of a field around the enforced disappearances in the aftermath of counterinsurgency. Two factors are presented for discussion: a theoretical perspective on authoritarianism and repression of the Mexican State, and differences and conflicts in the spectrum of the Mexican left-wing.

Keywords : Enforced Disappearances; Political Violence; Counterinsurgency; Human Rights; Mexico.