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Record Nr.

UNINA9910154339903321

Autore

Aviña Alexander

Titolo

Specters of revolution : peasant guerrillas in the Cold War Mexican countryside / / Alexander Aviña

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York : , : Oxford University Press, , 2014

ISBN

9780199345830 (ebook) :

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource : illustrations (black and white), maps (black and white)

Disciplina

972.08/2

Soggetti

Teachers - Political activity - History - 20th century - Mexico

Peasants - Political activity - History - 20th century - Mexico

Guerrillas - Mexico - History - 20th century

Insurgency - Mexico - History - 20th Century

State-sponsored terrorism - Mexico - History - 20th century

Regions & Countries - Americas

History & Archaeology

Mexico

Mexico Politics and government 1946-1970

Mexico Rural conditions

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Sommario/riassunto

Avina chronicles the peasant guerrilla movements that emerged in the southwestern Mexican state of Guerrero during the late 1960s. The National Revolutionary Civic Association and the Party of the Poor organised popular revolutionary armed struggles seeking the overthrow of the ruling Institutional Revolutionary Party. Both guerrilla organisations materialized from a decades-long history of massacres and everyday forms of terror committed by local-regional political bosses and the Mexican federal government against citizen social movements that demanded the redemption of constitutional rights.