Blood Sacrifice, Instant Celebrity, Organization and Mobilization

The paper deals with cases in which almost unknown persons, because of a tragedy, suddenly jump from anonymity to the civil sphere converted in celebrities with great capacity for civil intervention.

These celebrities owe their instant fame to the fact that they are closely related to the victim of a bloody tragedy: the kidnap and murder of a child, a wife or a husband.

The paper will concentrate in these aspects:

1)      The casual birth of a new (involuntary) celebrity, because of a blood tragedy.

2)      Scandal, annoyance, desperation, and new tragic stars in the media. 

3)      The re-edition and impact of the old myth of sacrifice, blood spill and redemption.

4)      The effectiveness of the myth that tragic death of an innocent victim is a sacrifice and sacrifice should be useful and deserve compensation.

5)      The great impact of bloody sacrifice symbol. Bloody sacrifice and “conscience crisis” (Habermas).

6)      The great possibilities of social action and intervention of some of these people.

7)      The different strategies, goals and routes of social action.

8)      The discovery of the possession of an unknown new great “magic” like power.

9)      Amazement and improvisation of the action of the new celebrity

10)   Why some of the co-victims can develop social leadership and others don’t?

11)   Resources for the mobilization of this mythical power.

12)   The process of diminution or transformation of these leaderships.

The empirical base of the study relay in the cases of some co-victims who lose in Mexico their relatives by criminal actions, and which after the event, they lived a quick process of transformation into sociopolitical leaders who, after a short time since their loose, create organizations, to call huge mass mobilizations and to question severely the incapacity of the government to display public security to the people.