Bandidos Antisociales: Representaciones del Bandolerismo durante los años 1958 a 1964 en los discursos de Prensa.

Abstract

Crime and the press have had a close relationship during the second half of the 20th century, where the large publishing houses tried to narrate social conflicts by mediating stories of violence in Colombia from hegemonic voices. These narratives consolidated new readings of expressions such as Banditry, which took place during the peak of bipartisan confrontations, which related to structural inequities and the lack of institutional representation towards the peasant sectors, consolidated groups outside the law that found in violent practices a functional tool for conflict management. Now, taking into account that the media narratives respond to structural requests due to the close link they share with the institutionality, it is pertinent to question those models of representation of banditry in the press narratives that reported the violent repression for the control and possession of land in the country. Finally, this document proposes the premise that the press constructs restricted accounts of diverse situations and characters, which relegates the figure of antagonist that affects the social order and is presented as a danger to the civil structure, to those groups that mediated by the media as antisocial bandits.