La producción silenciada de los “desastres naturales” en catástrofes sociales

Abstract

Disasters are socioenvironmental phenomena requiring the state to provide a set of measures and mechanisms to address the crisis scenario. One of the techniques used by govern-ments is to declare an emergency situation or issue a disaster declaration. This article shows that the technique of declaring a state of emergency is a mechanism which, instead of gua-ranteeing human rights in disaster situations, permits new violations and establishes the conditions for the silenced production of catastrophes.