Máscaras de clasismo y racialización: discursos de la violencia política en Venezuela 2013-2019

Abstract

In this article I develop an approach to classism and racialization to explain the events of political violence in Venezuela between 2013 and 2019, based on four cases of subjects who were attacked in an area of the “East” of Caracas, two of they burned alive. I propose a brief socio-political context in order to understand the contemporary situation of the country and I outline the implicit categories in the ways of representing collectivities with the aim of analyzing the discourses and practices of the sectors in political dispute in the country. I close with a brief sketch of how social research have boarded the issue and conclude that contemporary political disputes reflect a classism and racialization of subjects in Venezuela.