Abstract

DELGADO PARRA, Concepción. The logic of cruelty and forced disappearances in Mexico. Andamios [online]. 2022, vol.19, n.50, pp.47-76.  Epub Sep 29, 2023. ISSN 2594-1917.  https://doi.org/10.29092/uacm.v19i50.944.

The article proposes to discuss the scope of the moral discourse of the logic of cruelty in forced disappearances during the six-year administration of Felipe Calderón. It also seeks to identify practices that can reverse this grammar. To this end, two perspectives are used: a philosophical-anthropological one and a political-journalistic one, whose methodological structure posits four analytical axes. These include the ethical and moral distinction to determine what the logic of cruelty involves; a political-journalistic analysis to contextualize Calderón’s “war on drug trafficking,” a turning point in the increase in forced disappearances; the instrumentality of moral grammar and the logic of criminalization in the process of forced disappearance; and the ethical response of the “searchers” that points to the transgression of the logic of cruelty.

Keywords : Forced disappearances; moral grammar; logic of cruelty; ethics; damaged lives.

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