Leaders instrumentalizing images of dead/captured enemies to project authoritarian power represents state use of violence imagery for political control and normalization of extrajudicial killings.
In Colombia, as in the United States and El Salvador, leaders are increasingly using images of captured or killed enemies to project power.
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