Resumos
In 2006, the Mexican government deployed the armed forces to combat organized crime in the so-called “war against narcotrafficking”. Since then, civilians have been victims o of murders, disappearances, and torture carried out both by cartels and by the federal and state forces who are supposedly fighting the former. This article presents the analysis of the narrative of a mother who faced the partial destruction of her son’s remains, focusing on three fundamental aspects: the relationship between somatizations and the working trough of the traumatic experience of the destruction of a beloved’s remains, the creation of zones of silence around brutal events, and the role that accounts play in the process of symbolization of traumatic traces.
Key words:
Testimony; partial destruction of remains; traumatic traces; symbolisation; somatizations; zones of silence; Mexico; “war against drugs”