Visibilities of violence in Latin America: repetition, registers and frames, Maya Aguiluz Ibargüen

Abstract

There is a challenge present in reviewing this book. The challenge of reading and rereading its pages like a stunned witness in an awkward place. The essays gathered here constitute a life experience that I am sure is very unenviable: the fact of accompanying these authors with the reading makes us complicit witnesses to the analysis, interpretation and attempt to understand these violences found and disseminated by our Latin America. Rigoberto Reyes Sánchez, tells us about the current panorama of violence in Mexico, of which drug trafficking is just the tip of the iceberg, since, in his words, the field of action of these groups has diversified, forming new structures and integrating to its ranks public officials and the civilian population. The current criminal groups are authentic conglomerates of transnational operations with the capacity to “respond and produce high-impact armed conflicts” (p. 22).