Los desastres en México de los 80’s: Miedo, culpa y secuelas psicosociales
In Mexico on November 19, 1984, in San Juanico (San Juan Ixhuatepec) there was an industrial catastrophe, unprecedented in Petróleos Mexicanos (PEMEX); to make the unacceptable acceptable, it was the Catholic Church that would pronounce itself as the spokesman for a divine justice, in pointing to th...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | Spanish |
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Groupe de Recherche Amérique Latine Histoire et Mémoire
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| Series: | Les Cahiers ALHIM |
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| Online Access: | https://journals.openedition.org/alhim/5793 |
| Summary: | In Mexico on November 19, 1984, in San Juanico (San Juan Ixhuatepec) there was an industrial catastrophe, unprecedented in Petróleos Mexicanos (PEMEX); to make the unacceptable acceptable, it was the Catholic Church that would pronounce itself as the spokesman for a divine justice, in pointing to the Sanjuaniquences "guilty of that punishment, for their sins." The survivors coined their guilt and endorsing their punishment, creating the myth of having seen the virgin of Guadalupe, at the top of the fire with open arms showing "3 times the number 19." In Mexico City, on September 19, 1985, the most important earthquake occurred. As in San Juanico, the Catholic Church emphasizes that "God was finished, with the colonies of sin." In this climate of "divine guilt and punishment", society demonstrated a capacity for response to the disaster, which was not known. The interest of this work is to analyze the circuit of fear and guilt, in situations of catastrophe. |
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| ISSN: | 1628-6731 1777-5175 |