Enforced disappearance, militarization of public space and Mobilizations from civil society. Towards an economic semiotics of terror in violent bodies in Mexico / Interview with Rosalva Aída HERNÁNDEZ CASTILLO

Abstract

In the last three decades, a phenomenon has been a prey in Mexican society: the forced disappearance in its various manifestations. In a general framework of extreme violence, we have witnessed the process of revictimization of social fighters, students, human rights defenders and transnational activists through the pedagogy of terror that forced disappearance implies. The disappearance of 43 students from the Raul Isidro Burgos Rural Normal School located in the municipality of Ayotzinapa, Guerrero (Mexico) was the historical event that made visible the maximum expression of the social and institutional crisis during the regime of the Presidency of Enrique Pena Nieto.

A historical event that put into debate the subject of enforced disappearance, the clandestine graves, the crisis of the legal justice devices, the national security policies, the increase of military actors in public spaces and the emergence of a civil society that demands the appearance alive of their relatives.

In this regard, we have spoken with the decolonial feminist anthropologist, Aída Rosalva Hernández Castillo, to address the current situation of victims of forced disappearance and the organization of civil society in response to impunity and institutional emptiness in relation to this new economy of terror and fear that kidnapping produces as a characteristic of the Mexican NarcoState.