Abstract

MORBIATO, Caterina. Resistance Practices in Mexico in times of Enforced Disappearance. Trace (Méx. DF) [online]. 2017, n.71, pp.138-165. ISSN 2007-2392.  https://doi.org/10.22134/trace.71.2017.100.

This article reflects on how practice of enforced disappearance ravishes the Mexican territory. Scrutinizing the State’s narrative strategy as a rhetorical assault on the possibility of legal and historical truth, which imposes oblivion, it analyzes parallel constructions of counter-truths that pressingly claim for immediate memory. Two cases are used as a starting point of the analysis: the Caravan of Central American Mothers crossing Mexico and the movement that arose as a result of the attack led against Ayotzinapa normalista students on September 26th, 2014, bringing into focus how their discourses and practices shatter the univocal official narrative. Finally, the article puts forward some considerations on the state of fear and violence pervading the country at present as well as a fundamental need to learn to call it by its name.

Keywords : enforced disappearance; Ayotzinapa; migrants; memory; resistance practices.

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