Resumen
This article seeks to analyze the role of civic-military operations, social control devices used by the dictatorship, the hypothesis defines that the social fracture, represented by the cycle of protests against the regime, has a response in civic-military operations and, in political terms, this refers to a clear dispute. We will focus on the characterization of the social subjects and the dynamics that defined the imposition of these social control devices, within the framework of the cycle of national protests that goes from 1983 to 1986. As a documentary corpus, a national and regional press review is made, as well as the analysis of legislation of the period.