When States Kill : : Latin America, the U.S., and Technologies of Terror / / ed. by Cecilia Menjívar, Néstor Rodríguez.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Texas Press eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013
• MitwirkendeR: Armony, Ariel C.,; Beggar, Abderrahman,; Dugas, John C.,; Grossman, Richard,; Kruckewitt, Joan,; Lauderdale, Pat,; Lauria-Santiago, Aldo A.,; Mcsherry, J. Patrice,; Menjivar, Cecilia,; Menjívar, Cecilia,; Norget, Kristin,; Oliverio, Annamarie,; Rodriguez, Néstor,; Rodríguez, Néstor,; Ryan, Jeffrey J.,; Torres, M. Gabriela,
• HerausgeberIn: Menjívar, Cecilia,; Rodríguez, Néstor,
• Place / Publishing House: Austin : : University of Texas Press, , [2021]; ©2005
• Year of Publication: 2021
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (388 p.)

Since the early twentieth century, technological transfers from the United States to Latin American countries have involved technologies of violence for social control. As the chapters in this book illustrate, these technological transfers have taken various forms, including the training of Latin American military personnel in surveillance and torture and the provision of political and logistic support for campaigns of state terror. The human cost for Latin America has been enormous—thousands of Latin Americans have been murdered, disappeared, or tortured, and whole communities have been terrorized into silence. Organized by region, the essays in this book address the topic of state-sponsored terrorism in a variety of ways. Most take the perspective that state-directed political violence is a modern development of a regional political structure in which U.S. political interests weigh heavily. Others acknowledge that Latin American states enthusiastically received U.S. support for their campaigns of terror. A few see local culture and history as key factors in the implementation of state campaigns of political violence. Together, all the essays exemplify how technologies of terror have been transferred among various Latin American countries, with particular attention to the role that the United States, as a "strong" state, has played in such transfers.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Part one INTRODUCTION -- Chapter 1 State Terror in the U.S.–Latin American Interstate Regime -- Chapter 2 Operation Condor as a Hemispheric “Counterterror” Organization -- Part two CENTRAL AMERICA AND MEXICO -- Chapter 3 “The Blood of the People” The Guardia Nacional’s Fifty-year War against the People of Nicaragua, 1927–1979 -- Chapter 4 The Culture and Politics of State Terror and Repression in El Salvador -- Chapter 5 Caught in the Crossfire: Militarization, Paramilitarization, and State Violence in Oaxaca, Mexico -- Chapter 6 Bloody Deeds/Hechos Sangrientos: Reading Guatemala’s Record of Political Violence in Cadaver Reports -- Chapter 7 U.S. Militarization of Honduras in the 1980s and the Creation of CIA-backed Death Squad -- chapter 8 “No Hay Rosas Sin Espinas” Statecraft in Costa Rica -- Part three SOUTH AMERICA -- Chapter 9 The Colombian Nightmare: Human Rights Abuses and the Contradictory Effects of U.S. Foreign Policy -- Chapter 10 The Path of State Terror in Peru -- Chapter 11 Turning on Their Masters: State Terrorism and Unlearning Democracy in Uruguay -- Chapter 12 Producing and Exporting State Terror The Case of Argentina -- Part four CONCLUSION -- chapter 13 New Responses to State Terror -- About the Contributors -- Index