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- Title
¿Son culpables los altos mandos de promover ejecuciones extrajudiciales en Colombia?
- Authors
Durán, Sebastián; Valencia, María Castillo
- Abstract
The objective of this work is to study the nature of extrajudicial executions in Colombia, having as a hypothesis that these actions were not isolated events, but, on the contrary, could be ordered by the high military commands. The literature review and the evidence obtained from the stories and denunciations of its protagonists show that these events occurred under the direction of some middle and senior managers. Using the theoretical approach of the principal-agent model developed by Demeritt (2015), it is shown that the impunity enjoyed by high-ranking officers of the Colombian army led to the commission of these crimes in a systematic manner. Therefore, its solution does not refer only to control, since much of the military structure was involved, but to the restructuring of the policy that measures the success of the military unit employing the number of casualties.
- Subjects
COLOMBIA; EXTRAJUDICIAL executions; MIDDLE managers; ARMY officers
- Publication
Revista Colombiana de Ciencias Sociales, 2022, Vol 13, Issue 1, p43
- ISSN
2216-1201
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.21501/22161201.3574