The analysis of the situation as a tool for the study of political processes: government, social demands and access to justice

Abstract

The analysis of the situation is usually seen as the mere discussion of events that occur in a week or a few days, but that is a simplified or even erroneous reading of the potential that this tool offers to contextualize and analyze political processes through specific categories. In that case, this document offers an exploratory exercise of such an analysis based on the institutional conditions for access to justice that various victims’ committees or civil organizations have demanded from the current government administration since it assumed its mandate in June 2019 and from other state entities in the face of serious human rights violations that occurred during the Salvadoran war. Therefore, in the following lines, a conceptual delimitation is made not only of the political and conjuncture analysis, but also theoretically explored in the use of discursive factors characterized by a narrative with populist elements. After that, the exercise of application to the subject becomes deli- mited between June 2019 and June 2022 according to its basic components: the main events that arose, the actors involved, the political correlations regarding the subject and the communicational uses of the president to the social demands for access to transitional justice.

ECA Estudios Centroamericanos, Vol. 77, No. 769, 2022: 101-127.