Una mirada periodístico-literaria al conflicto colombiano a partir de las figuras de Pablo Escobar e Íngrid Betancourt: análisis de las crónicas de Juan José Hoyos y Felipe Restrepo Pombo

Abstract

Chronicles are literary journalistic reconstructions of events or characters. Their essential feature is that that they build up a text in which the use of narrative strategies gains relevance over information transmission issues. The Colombian armed conflict is analyzed in this context, and in the light of this genre. Throughout this armed process there have been cases and paradigmatic figures who have grabbed the world´s media attention. In this text we will refer to two of them: Pablo Escobar, a former mafia boss, and Ingrid Betancourt, a presidential candidate kidnapped in 2002. In order to narrate this type of stories we have resorted to texts by chroniclers Juan Jose Hoyos and Felipe Restrepo Pombo. In them the authors have made their mark on the stories to demystify these two characters and make sense of such a dissimilar and complex reality as that posed by the Colombian conflict.