Colombian necktie

A Colombian necktie (Spanish: corbata colombiana) or tie-cut (Spanish: corte de corbata) is a form of execution or post-mortem mutilation in which the victim's tongue is pulled through a deep cut beneath the jaw and left dangling on the neck. It first appeared in Colombia during the period known as La Violencia (1948–1958) as a method of psychological warfare designed to scare and intimidate.^[1] It was one of several documented types of public mutilation in the conflict used to terrorize people away from their land. Others included killing a pregnant woman, extracting the fetus and placing it on her body and replacing it with a rooster; stuffing the genitals of dead men into their mouths; and the "flower-vase-cut" where the victim's limbs were cut off and stuffed into their torso. The methods served to dehumanize victims, as can be seen in terms used by perpetrators such as bocachiquear and picar para tamal, which refer respectively to the preparation of fish and tamales.^[2][3]

Its invention is sometimes erroneously attributed to drug kingpin Pablo Escobar.^[4] During the murder trial of O. J. Simpson, defense lawyers claimed that hitmen hired by drug dealers gave Nicole Brown Simpson a Colombian necktie, but this was barred from testimony due to a lack of supporting evidence.^[5][6]

See also

• Glasgow smile
• Necklacing

References

1. Fichtl, Eric (August 2005). "Contested Country: An Examination of Current Propaganda Techniques in the Colombian Civil War". Colombia Journal. Archived from the original on 12 March 2008. Retrieved 15 July 2009.
2. Uribe, María Victoria (Winter 2004). "Dismembering and Expelling: Semantics of Political Terror in Colombia". Public Culture. 16 (1): 79–95. doi:10.1215/08992363-16-1-79. S2CID 144443292.
3. Jiménez Becerra, Absalón (2013). "El periodo de la violencia en Colombia y el uso de las imágenes del terror, 1948-1965" [The role of the image, the imaginary and political memory in Colombia] (PDF). Revista de Antropología Experimental (in Spanish) (11): 151–165. ISSN 1578-4282. Archived from the original (PDF) on 3 June 2022. Retrieved 27 July 2024.
4. Bowden, Mark (2001). "Chapter 1". Killing Pablo. New York: Atlantic Monthly Press. ISBN 978-0-87113-783-8. Retrieved 15 July 2009.
5. Koerner, Brendan I. (17 November 2009). "The Colombian Necktie Half-Truth". Microkhan. Retrieved 15 March 2021.
6. Iovine, Anna Rose (16 March 2016). "Faye Resnick Videos Addressing The Drug Cartel Theory On 'The People V. O.J. Simpson' Shows Just How Complicated The Case Was". Romper. Retrieved 30 March 2021.

External links

• The dictionary definition of Colombian necktie at Wiktionary