Colombia: una paz postergada el tratamiento de los medios de comunicación nacional a los procesos de paz 1984 y al adelantando en La Habana.

Abstract

This document aims to provide some analytic elements, both critical and comparative, about the management that the media, such as El Tiempo newspaper and the Semana magazine, have given to peace talks. The first one developed by Farc-Ep and the government of Belisario Betancur in 1984, and on the other hand the peace process with the same insurgency in the government of Juan Manuel Santos in Havana. Basically the aim is to demonstrate its contribution to the construction of a political culture for peace. In order to do this, an approach is made to the historical origins and causes of the internal conflict, until arriving at the events in which the media describe and recount in their pages, leaving a memory that is analyzed as the need to understand the veracity of the information, the analysis of it from a critical perspective, as well as the need to evidence, the effects of this type of press in the country's political culture.

Finally, in the analysis, we show how the Semana magazine and El Tiempo newspaper, within the framework of the two peace processes, not only taught a segregationist language about the actors involved in the conflict, in particular about the FARC, but also, they were impartial with the information and insufficient when giving voice to the victims of the State, they showed an imbalance privileging an instituted power, thus becoming squires of one the parties immersed in the conflict.