Leaders instrumentalizing images of dead/captured enemies to project authoritarian power represents state use of violence imagery for political control and normalization of extrajudicial killings.
In Colombia, as in the United States and El Salvador, leaders are increasingly using images of captured or killed enemies to project power.
Examines how the 'War on Terror' lexicon sanitized authoritarian governance and systematic human rights violations through linguistic… [more]
Documents systematic criminalization and imprisonment of Indigenous activists for peaceful protest participation, exemplifying… [more]
Systematic demolition of homes and schools represents authoritarian governance through destruction of civilian infrastructure and… [more]