Social mobilizations during the Government of Iván Duque. Colombia, 2018-2022

Abstract

This article analyzes social mobilizations during the government of Iván Duque (2018-2022) in Colombia. He maintains that these great collective actions are part of the same protest cycle and are explained by factors of the political context in which they develop. In this scenario there are two definitive processes: the emergence of demands, previously silenced by the war, thanks to the peace negotiations between the Government of Santos (2010-2018) and FARC, and the decline of the uribista hegemony in the conduction of the State. These processes alter the dynamics of institutional policy, political representation and coalitions. Thus, the socioeconomic crisis is a necessary but insufficient factor to explain the mobilizations. Despite the costs that a high repression of the protest brought, citizens chose to mobilize because no other channel had available to process emerging social demands, not represented by the Uribista right, the center or the political left.