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By challenging more common analyses that point to the existence of a "post-conflict scenario" in Colombia and those that resist the narrative of "success", both of which operate within the logic of presence/absence of violence, this book proposes instead that we think of "post-conflict" in terms of the transformation of the rules on the use of violence. The analysis unfolds in two parts: the first explores the conditions of possibility of the Colombian “success story” and the web of criteria legitimizing the “success”, as well as the silencing mechanisms allowing for Colombia to circulate internationally as a formula to be replicated in other parts of the world; the second, focuses on the historicization of the mechanisms through which new rules are transmitted among the professionals of the public force, specifically the transformations of military schools and training centers in Colombia from times of “war” to “peace”. The author argues that key to this transformation is a unique discursive articulation around the “military professional” which slides from “citizen-soldier” to “expert-soldier”.
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Durante las últimas décadas, las organizaciones de narcotráfico en América Latina se han hecho famosas por sus espantosos crímenes públicos, como los ataques narcoterroristas al sistema político colombiano en los años ochenta o las olas de decapitaciones en México. Sin embargo, si bien estas formas visibles de violencia pública dominan los titulares, no son ni la manifestación más común de violencia relacionada con las drogas ni simplemente el resultado de la brutalidad. Más bien, surgen de condiciones estructurales que varían de un país a otro y de una época a otra. Criminales, policías y políticos da cuenta de cómo esta variación en la violencia resulta de la compleja ...