Ciudad bolívar y la defensa de los derechos humanos: vida cotidiana de las y los líderes de las organizaciones sociales en medio de las ejecuciones extrajudiciales.

Abstract

This research starts from the need to contribute to the construction of a holistic view of the daily life of the leaders of the social organizations in the town of Ciudad Bolívar, from a sociological reading of the social practices transformed both at the individual and family level. , as well as the political praxis that they develop from the social organizations to which they belong and the relationship that they established with the State Institutions that arrived in a massive way to the town of Ciudad Bolívar to provide social attention in the face of the alarming systematic executions of young people . Making an approach from the fundamental areas that make up the sphere of daily life of the social leaders, around the problem of extrajudicial executions against stigmatized people - or misnamed "social cleansing". Therefore, this research aims to propose a new angle for understanding the role assumed by leaders who build social and community processes in defense of Human Rights. As a political actor within marginalized territories where fear tends to force subjects to renounce certain attitudes of resistance (Corey, 2006: 87) such as social mobilization, symbolic non-violent actions, artistic training processes - cultural, and the very formation of youth groups that build empowerment processes from the street, this being a disputed territory.