Castigo, normalización y legitimidad: Los Macheteros y el delito político en Puerto Rico (1985-1992)

Abstract

This essay analyzes the arrests regarding the 7 million dollar robbery on Wells Fargo deposits in Connecticut by the National Liberation group named, Los Macheteros. The essay analyzes the strategies used by the State against the defendants through the use of structures of control as presented by Michel Foucault. This, with the purpose to reinterpret some of the penal practices by the State, against crimes of political nature. The text attempts to demonstrate how punishment practices of the old regime apparently abandoned with modernity, were used to attend "crimes of political nature". Particularly with felonies where its questioned the legitimacy or the source of political sovereignty by the State via violent means.