El anticomunismo en Colombia: actores, discursos y estrategias. Breve acercamiento historiográfico

Abstract

Colombia has been regularly associated with conservative tendencies, with a marked rejection of socialist and communist ideas throughout its history. This political imaginary has not necessarily been an arbitrary categorization. The number of governments with conservative and anticommunist tendencies allows a partial conclusion of this phenomenon. The interest in addressing the issue of anticommunism is based on the understanding of the reasons why the rejection of such ideas became a generality and a constant in various political sectors, both liberal and conservative. Therefore, the objective of this historiographical balance is to analyze how historiography has approached the phenomenon of anticommunism in Colombia in various periods of its history, ranging from the mid-nineteenth century to the late twentieth century.