La profanación de la Imagen de Evo Morales: Análisis de la imagen del Presidente como figura mesiánica y significante flotante a partir de la aparición de Eva Liz Morales
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Rev. aportes de la comunicación
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El Presidente Evo Morales es una figura pública con un gran peso simbólico y con mucho poder en la política nacional actual, es decir una figura sacra o mesiánica. Su hija Eva Liz se ha convertido, recientemente, en su acompañante en actos públicos, por lo general internacionales. A partir de la aparición en escena de ella, la imagen del Presidente se modifica al ser profanada por el rol paternal que ahora recae en el Primer Mandatario. A través de una serie de entrevistas a expertos en el tema, y del análisis de notas en medios de comunicación vigentes que sean relevantes se describe el proceso por el cual se consagra y profana dicha figura reestructurando la imagen de Evo Morales; además de la influencia de su hija en tal reestructuración. Es así como, al pasar por este proceso la imagen del Presidente se entiende como un significante flotante de acuerdo con la teoría de Giorgio Agamben.
President Evo Morales is a public figure with great symbolic weight on Boliviansocial imaginary. For different reasons the public figure of the president has been desecrated and sacralized, making of him a messianic symbol. His daughter Eva Liz has recently become his companion in public events, since these appearances, the paternal role given to Morales has reinforced the paternal figure of the president as father of the people. Through a semiotic analysis, this paper describes the deification and demystificationprocess of the political figure of Evo Morales, before and after Eva Liz appearances identifying the symbolic impact of these appearances.
President Evo Morales is a public figure with great symbolic weight on Boliviansocial imaginary. For different reasons the public figure of the president has been desecrated and sacralized, making of him a messianic symbol. His daughter Eva Liz has recently become his companion in public events, since these appearances, the paternal role given to Morales has reinforced the paternal figure of the president as father of the people. Through a semiotic analysis, this paper describes the deification and demystificationprocess of the political figure of Evo Morales, before and after Eva Liz appearances identifying the symbolic impact of these appearances.
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