摘要：This article is the result of an academic reflection about the immeasurability of the atrocious acts inflicted on the civilian population by paramilitaries in Colombia. The reflection revolves around the pain of the victim and the cruelty of the perpetrator, which are weaved together within a symbolic framework that exceeds any rational approach. In the same way, this article explores the connection between the victim’s testimony and the social scientist’s analysis. Both, the analysis and the testimony, due to their discoursive limitations, are unable to satisfy the moral, political, emotional, and aesthetic challenges that Evil, with its abject way of manifesting, imposes.
