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Record Nr.

UNINA9910451655203321

Titolo

When states kill [[electronic resource] ] : Latin America, the U.S., and technologies of terror / / edited by Cecilia Menjívar and Néstor Rodríguez

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Austin, : University of Texas Press, 2005

ISBN

0-292-79670-6

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (389 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

MenjívarCecilia

RodriguezNéstor

Disciplina

303.6/25/098

Soggetti

State-sponsored terrorism - Latin America

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

State terror in the U.S.-Latin American interstate regime / Cecilia Menjívar and Néstor Rodríguez -- Operation Condor as a hemispheric "counterterror" organization / J. Patrice McSherry -- "The blood of the people" : the Guardia Nacional's fifty-year war against the people of Nicaragua, 1927-1979 / Richard Grossman -- The culture and politics of state terror and repression in El Salvador / Aldo A. Lauria-Santiago -- Caught in the crossfire : militarization, paramilitarization, and state violence in Oaxaca, Mexico / Kristin Norget -- Bloody deeds/hechos sangrientos : reading Guatemala's record of political violence in cadaver reports / M. Gabriela Torres -- U.S. militarization of Honduras in the 1980s and the creation of CIA-backed death squads / Joan Kruckewitt -- "No hay rosas sin espinas" : statecraft in Costa Rica / Annamarie Oliverio and Pat Lauderdale -- The Colombian nightmare : human rights abuses and the contradictory effects of U.S. foreign policy / John C. Dugas -- The path of state terror in Peru / Abderrahman Beggar -- Turning on their masters : state terrorism and unlearning democracy in Uruguay / Jeffrey J. Ryan -- Producing and exporting state terror : the case of Argentina / Ariel C. Armony -- New responses to state terror / Cecilia Menjívar and Néstor Rodríguez