The logic of the "irrational": war and violence in El Salvador.

Abstract

This article takes up part of a doctoral research in Latin American Studies, in which I address the issue of violence during the civil war in El Salvador (1980-1992), as well as its background. In this work I try to understand how during the decade of the seventies specifc dynamics of violence were built, especially exercised from the state, which culminated in the outbreak of a civil war in the eighties. I start from the hypothesis that the period of the war constituted a moment in which the pre-existing dynamics of violence deepened, starting from the construction of another one that had to be eliminated, also known as “internal enemy”. As will be seen, it is the exposition of preliminary conclusions that, in no way, should be interpreted as defnitive assertions; In any case, I seek to present the horizons and the questions on which I have built what, in my opinion, constitutes the attempt to offer a new interpretation of a phenomenon as complex as the war in El Salvador.

Revista de Humanidades y Ciencias Sociales, n° 10, july-december 2017: 59-86