摘要：After a description of the armed conflict that since 1945 has bloodied Columbia,
this essay focuses on the violence towards women, on its objective and subjective dimension,
on the links between intrafamily violence and war violence, between sexual violence and
desplazamiento. There emerges a clear picture of the symbiotic relationship between armed
conflict and discriminatory, male-dominated gender relations, in which the former reinforces
the latter which, in turn, provides fertile ground for the manifestation of the violence inherent
in the former. For women in Columbia “fear and violence did not appear with the massacres,
but sadly were present in their lives much earlier”.
