DERECHOS HUMANOS Y VIOLENCIA CRIMINAL EN LA CIUDAD DE ROSARIO.

This article is part of a research which studies the modalities of power and the struggle for human rights in episodes of extreme violence carried out by members of criminal organizations linked to criminal economies against residents of popular neighborhoods of Rosario city. In the first place I analyze the relations of citizenship, power and resistance in the contemporary stage of capitalism in Latin America, for whose understanding I consider that the notions of the traditional models of Modernity are at least insufficient; that is the reason why I turn to other perspectives which, from different disciplines of Social Scienses, incorporate new inteligibilities, such as Michel Foucault's approach to the question of power, with his conceptions of biopower, biopolitics and govemmentability, and the contribution of Giorgio Agamben, who resumes them as keys for the interpretation of Western politics. Then I focus the murder of Mercedes Delgado in 2013 in Ludueña neighborhood (Rosario), which had a large social and political repercussion and contributed to draw attention and put in the public agenda the social conflicts sociales which affect other neighborhoods as well. In this analysis I emphasize the value of the testimonies of relatives and neighbors. Finally, I explore how the strategies of social movements and human rights activists were constructed and the practices of public servants for the access to justice and the struggle against impunity. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]