The Colombian press as a crucial element in the perceptive change of the Rojas Pinilla dictatorship

Abstract

The historical development of Colombia has been evident for a dialect imposition of ideologies which, has disrupted not only traditional parties (Conservador and Liberal), but also it has generated the root central of national violence. This politics violence increase for the press, it interpreting like first media in the century´s XIX and XX, as since its beginning the  press has  been a  credible  expression  of   political  ideologies,  until transform in the coercive tool to formation of public opinion, which would contribute to  constitution  of imaginaries    and  decisions     about national  phenomenon.

The present essay, supported in the qualitative paradigm, try to look for the relation between: national press, political parties and violence, through of specific case study: Resume the dictatorship  of  Gustavo  Rojas  Pinillla  and  pretend  analyze  the  role  played by the perception of this dictatorship and like it perception influences the increase of violence and the radicalization of perceptions. So, this research, raised from the historical-hermeneutical method, pretend to study the discursive intention of the main  newspapers (El País, El Tiempo, El Espectador) from 1953 to 1957 front the dic- tatorship  and  the image  they  formed,  inasmuch as in the begin is approved (Positive dictatorship) and progressively  ends in total repulse (negative   dictatorship).