Poder político y thanatos: cuando la medida de la violencia se torna política de Estado

Abstract

This article is to reflect on critical conditions of 21st-century politics, understanding its crisis and decline, which exerts increasingly aggressive policies from bureaucracies and institutions. It briefly summarizes decadent situations in Ecuadorian politics, without depriving it of similarities with Latin American and global scenarios. More than a proposal or a set of data, it seeks to theoretically address, through political and psychoanalytic concepts, the possible contexts in which the civilian population finds itself immersed, where criminal violence becomes the norm due to silence, complicity, and even governmental decay. It uses as a basis the theoretical aspects of Hannah Arendt, who already foresaw possible scenarios that are having an impact on the political reality of the country and the world. It describes common and everyday situations involving bureaucracy, violence, and the power not only of politics but also of organized crime, which are embedded in everyday life.