The death of our young people is the cemetery of our future

ADRIAN SCRIBANO

Visibilities and violence on the skin of Colombia

Estudios Sociologicos Editora

Año: 2021; p. 9 - 21

.Colombia1is another case of deaths and mutilations of hundreds of young people due torepression in social protests that constitute a complex, interclass and plural cycle of protests. In this shortarticle, we try to analyze some photos and memes circulated on social networks as an example of thecentral features of the Colombian protest today.The main objective is to make visible the content of the disputes, participants and claims that theprotest contains. Along with that, we intend to point out the scope, impact and importance of theseprotests as “media and messages” of social conflict in Latin America in general. We inscribe the analysiscarried out on the intuition that there are many similarities between the protests or protests observed inChile, Venezuela and Ecuador.One of the keys that we see as central in these cycles of protest is the massive youth participationand the special and indiscriminate repression of young people.Of course, we know that by not living and experiencing the events in the first person, ourperspective must be taken with caution.