Abstract

espanolEl 18 de febrero de 2000, un grupo de 450 paramilitares de las Autodefensas Unidas de Colombia (AUC), armados hasta los dientes, incursiono en El Salado —corregimiento del Carmen de Bolivar. Aunque la masacre duro varios dias (del 16 al 21 de febrero), y cobro un saldo de 61 victimas mortales, el 18 de febrero se puede decir que El Salado vivio un teatro real de lo atroz. La cancha principal sirvio como escenario, y el publico, los mismos saladeros, fue obligado a presenciar una orgia de goce y exceso. Los numeros y las escenas se caracterizaron por la variedad: jovenes empaladas, ahorcamientos, ancianos asesinados a golpes, desmembramientos, apunalamientos, asfixia con bolsas plasticas, violaciones. En lo que sigue, usando El Salado como ejemplo, tratare de caracterizar esta version de la soberania —este poder paralizante, con pretensiones de totalidad, que se ensana sobre cuerpos inermes y vulnerables; un poder de naturaleza privada. Dos cuestiones me serviran de guia: ?cual es la mecanica o tecnologia que hace posible esta relacion disimetrica y absoluta de cuerpos? y ?por que este modo especifico del poder soberano, no satisfecho con el aniquilamiento, busca representar espectacularmente dicha relacion de dominacion? Ante la primera cuestion, propongo ver el exceso como formando parte de planes, estrategias territoriales y formacion militar. Quiero traer una alternativa a la perspectiva que habla del exceso como un arrebato de locura sin mas o como lo otro irrepresentable. Frente a la segunda pregunta, intento revisar las condiciones del teatro soberano, y su modo llamativo de autorrepresentarse en las masacres de este tipo. EnglishOn February 18, 2000, a group of 450 soldiers of the Autodefensas Unidas de Colombia (AUC) arrived at El Salado (a township in Carmen de Bolivar). Although the massacre lasted for several days (from February 16 to 21), and left 61 dead, on February 18, it can be said that El Salado lived in a real theater of the atrocious. The main mini soccer field was a stage, and the public, the local population, was forced to witness an orgy of enjoyment and excess. The numbers and scenes were characterized by variety: impaled youths, hangings, old men beaten to death, dismemberment, stabbings, suffocation with plastic bags, rapes. The following article, using El Salado as an example, will try to characterize this version of sovereignty —this paralyzing power, with claims of totality, that rages on defenseless and vulnerable bodies, a power of a private nature. Two questions will guide this research: what is the mechanics or technology that makes this asymmetric and absolute relationship of bodies possible?, and, why this specific mode of sovereign power, not satisfied with annihilation, seeks to dramatically represent this relationship of domination? Faced with the first question, this paper proposes to view excess as part of plans, territorial strategies, and military training. It wants to bring an alternative to the perspective that speaks of excess as an outburst of madness or as the unrepresentable. Regarding the second question, it will try to review the conditions of the sovereign theater, and its striking way of manifesting itself in massacres of this kind

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