Why we shouldn’t say “Lawfare”

Abstract

This work analyzes the origin and use of the term “Lawfare” to describe the political persecution device used by the media and the Judiciary to discredit political leaders, especially in Latin America. The author proposes to elaborate the idea of the “incorrectness of the automatic transfer” from his original field of study; from “war” to “politics”. After describing several of the mechanisms used in Argentina to criminalize opposition political leaders, he concludes that the phenomenon in question is not a legal war, but a violation of the laws and the most elementary constitutional guarantees. the author also observes that naming has a strong power. Renaming too. The Spanish language, infinitely richer than English, offers us an opportunity to call things as they are: it is, it was, a mediatic and judicial persecution of opponents.