Political culture and mafia justice in Colombia

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This article deals with the subject of mafia culture in Colombia. Its core statements are, substantially, that mafia culture is based on a traditional and charismatic political culture and, as this type of political culture is prevailing in Colombia, that mafia culture is a constituent part of our national identity. This paper pieces together the theoretical and empirical perspectives that have tried to explain this mafia culture in the country and, from there, in what way was a mafia justice configured.
El presente artículo aborda la temática de la cultura mafiosa en Colombia. Sus ejes principales son, sustancialmente, que la cultura mafiosa se basa en una cultura política tradicional y carismática y que, al ser este tipo de cultura política predominante en Colombia, la cultura mafiosa es parte constitutiva de nuestra identidad nacional. El escrito reconstruye las diferentes perspectivas, teóricas y empíricas, que han intentado dar razón de esta cultura mafiosa en el país y de qué manera, a partir de allí, se configuró igualmente una justicia mafiosa.

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Política, Justicia, Cultura mafiosa

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