Criminal Capital, Necroliberalism and Human Rights: Ecuador of 2024

Abstract

This article analyzes the phenomenon of drug trafficking, the response from the State and its effects on the acceptability and social application of Human Rights in society. To this end, he welcomes the perspective of critical theory based on the dialectical articulation of the concepts of criminal capital, necropolitics, and social struggle. In relation to this theoretical-conceptual framework, through a critical analysis of official documents, confirmed news and citizen opinion on social networks, in the Ecuadorian context of the violence crisis that occurred in January 2024, the relationship between the expansion of drug trafficking violence, the implementation of a repressive State and the applicability of Human Rights is established. As a result, the implementation of a necroliberal governmentality functional to the advance of criminal capital is proposed, whose immediate effect is the regression of human rights both at the level of state policy in the application of justice and of social consciousness.

Keywords:
Human rights; drug trafficking; criminal capital; necroliberalism