Vidas clandestinas, historias fragmentadas otra forma de insilio en Uruguay

Abstract

This article explores the experience of political clandestine in Uruguay during the years of the dictatorship (1973-1985), placing it within the phenomenon of insilement or internal exile, understanding that it is an expression of the consequences linked to social control, surveillance and the production of terror by the of the State. Its inclusion makes it possible to expand and conceptually complicate the experiences of the insilios in the understanding that it represented, for those who lived it and their families, another form of exile without leaving the territory of origin. It is structured based on testimonial sources and interviews conducted by the authors, as a way of accessing the complex network of emotions and sensations that unfold as you go through memory. In this way, the article aims to account for the profound transformations in the lives of the militants who went underground from the ruptures with the places of belonging (both real and symbolic), the interruption of affective ties, fear as a permanent companion, the difficulty of shaping the story and the strong presence of silence as well as the constructions of meaning around clandestine militancy that allowed them to go through this traumatic experience.