Genealogy of political prisoners’ organization in Colombia

Abstract

The political prisoners are a topic that has been slightly analyzed, not only because of the lack of bibliography but also because of the isolation, the enclosure and warden subjugation. In effect, since the last part of the decade of 1970 and due to the political context of the fight against communism, the aide effects of the National Front, the state of siege, the impact of the National Security Statute of 1978, just as the attempt of consolidation of Army-political organizations in the country and social demonstrations were determining in the flow of social leaders, politicians and guerrilleros who arrived to prison, making possible some ways of organization inserted in the national dynamics. Those basic ways of organization are analyzed since they emerged in 1977 until the amnesty of 1982 in topics such as solidarity, the creation of family comities, the occupation of the Dominican Embassy by M-19 and the coordination of prisoners from different ideological and organizational aspects.