El paramilitarismo como problema de la historia presente en Colombia.

Abstract

This article is part of the results of the research proj-ect Analysis of research on paramilitarism: regional studies (Antioquia, Sucre, Meta and Bogotá) and of the paramilitary as perpetrator, which required the analysis of research trajectories on the national level. It was established that in almost four decades of existence, this problem has been registered by their contemporaries, evi-dencing a close relationship between what is happening with paramilitarism and the emergence of research topics. This relationship of coetaneidad between the lived his-tory and the writing of that same history, according to Cuesta (1993), is a characteristic of the Present History. The legal field was also identified as a scenario of dispute between the Colombian State and the movements and social organizations of Human Rights and Victims; it is a struggle of almost forty years between the legitimization of paramilitarism and the denunciation of its illegality. In addition, several recent acts of violence executed by the paramilitaries confirm their constant presence as a phenomenon that connects the country’s past and present; in this regard, the permanence in time of events associated with traumatic past, is another characteristic of some objects of study of the Present History