Juvenicide in El Salvador: From the Firm Hand to the State of Exception

 

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Autore: Aguilar Villamariona, Jeannette
Natura: artículo original
Status:Versión publicada
Data di pubblicazione:2025
Descrizione:The objective of this article is to examine the processes of physical and symbolic annihilation that have occurred in Central American countries, mainly in those that have opted for punitive populism as a state policy, using of the analytical category of juvenicide. The permanent State of Exception adopted in El Salvador, by the government of Nayib Bukele, is analyzed as a case study, as a youth-killing device that, despite maintaining historical continuity with Mano Dura policies, is leading to unprecedented levels the imprisonment, murder and physical and symbolic erasure of large segments of marginalized youth and their future prospects.
Stato:Portal de Revistas UCR
Istituzione:Universidad de Costa Rica
Repositorio:Portal de Revistas UCR
Lingua:Español
OAI Identifier:oai:portal.revistas.ucr.ac.cr:article/2723
Accesso online:https://revistas.ucr.ac.cr/index.php/ranuario/article/view/2723
Keyword:young people
juvenicide
state of exception
stigmatization
arrests
jóvenes
juvenicidio
estado de excepción
estigmatización
detenciones