Pandemic in a Gore context. A necropolitical analysis of Tumaco

Abstract

The structural inequality, intensified with the neoliberal project, to which many regions of Latin America such as the Colombian Pacific have been subjected, has contributed to the con- figuration of a context of vulnerability in which multiple types of violence converge, whose effects worsen during humanitarian crises. The purpose of this article is to examine, from a documentary analysis, some of the impacts of COVID-19 in Tumaco under a reading of Necropolítica y Capi- talismo Gore proposed by Achille Mbembe (2011) and Sayak Valencia (2010). From this analysis, it is concluded that the geographic border condition, associated with the development of the market that coexists with deep structures of socioeconomic inequality and violence, multiplies the risks to certain lives in moments of crisis. Geographies of poverty, the participation of sujetos endriagos and the circulation of illicit merchandise intensify the necropolitical exercises against Afro-descendant bodies.