The Movimiento Nacional de Victimas de Crimenes de Estado (MOVICE): An independent and alternative struggle for a Colombian democratic project based on the principles of memory, truth, justice and reparation

Abstract

During the second "National Meeting on Victims of crimes against humanity in Bogota - Colombia" in 2005, held four days after the passage of the law of "Justice and Peace," in which the Colombian government has institutionalized a legal framework that would allow reinsertion of paramilitaries into civilian life, was born MOVICE: "National Movement of Victims of State Crime". The text presented here is to analyze the MOVICE as a network of social movements in which we construct shared meaning among various organizations formed with goals, structures, and different actors. We also search is for evidence that their demands and actions can be interpreted from a postcolonial theoretical perspective, in that their fight for the victims feeds back the progress of discussions and new narratives about social movements in Colombia.