"Caso Bombas": discursos sobre el anarquismo en Chile

This work examines the treatment that La Segunda and El Ciudadano newspapers and the Chilean executive and legislative powers gave to the relationship between the “Caso Bombas” and anarchist groups in this country from August 2010 to June 2012. The hypothesis proposes that the fact of highlighting this type of exercise of violence —related to the use of explosive devices to express criticism by non-organized groups— has produced a response from the State and the media that categorizes these groups as anarchists with terrorist orientations, thus denying their specificities. From the methodological perspective of Norman Fairclough’s critical analysis of the discourse, this study seeks to distinguish a criminalizing bias of certain social actors towards marginal groups.