When States Kill : : Latin America, the U.S., and Technologies of Terror /

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

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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 Am...

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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
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Physical Description:1 online resource (388 p.)
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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

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