“¿Ésta es la paz de Santos?”: el partido Centro Democrático y su construcción de significados alrededor de las negociaciones de paz

Abstract

This work studies the discursive strategies that have been adopted by the Centro Democrático party and its supporters regarding the peace negotiations between FARC and the Santos Government. I argue that these strategies have been based on the disqualification of President Santos and his project, starting with a re-signification of the concepts of "peace" and "justice". From an analytical framework that uses Bourdieu and Van Dijk, I see the political field as an arena of struggle for ideas and struggles between powers, where groups make great efforts to give social resonance to their speeches. Thus, I see the Centro Democrático as a group of agents seeking political capital expressed in recognition and power within the State, at the same time that it competes for intellectual objects by the imposition of some principles of vision and division around peace and justice.