Regímenes escópicos de una nueva guerra: las fotografías de mareros en la nota roja de la posguerra guatemalteca

Abstract

Since the mid-1990s, Guatemalan newspapers have run pictures oftattooed men identified as mareros (gang members). The deployment of these photographs served to spread ideas about who these subjects are and what they do, forging a public vision of crime as a phenomenon linked to the post-war period. Shaping this public perspective, in turn, became a new form of counterinsurgency against crime, and sensationalism has proved a critical rhetorical device. The discussion centers on two sensationalist papers, Al Día and Nuestro Diario, andcovers the period from 1996-2005.