03111nam 2200649 450 991078651540332120200520144314.00-89680-466-6(CKB)3710000000213132(EBL)1756228(OCoLC)885123705(SSID)ssj0001385173(PQKBManifestationID)11824470(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001385173(PQKBWorkID)11340338(PQKB)10749658(Au-PeEL)EBL1756228(CaPaEBR)ebr10900872(MiAaPQ)EBC1756228(EXLCZ)99371000000021313220090127h20092009 uy| 0engurcnu||||||||txtccrBlood and capital the paramilitarization of Colombia /Jasmin HristovAthens :Ohio University Press ;Toronto :Between the Lines,[2009]©20091 online resource (289 p.)Ohio University research in international studies. Latin America series ;number 48Description based upon print version of record.0-89680-267-1 Includes bibliographical references (pages 237-[244]) and index.Neoliberalism or neopoverty? The promises and the reality of the neoliberal agenda -- The war on the internal enemy : the origin, structure, mechanisms, and activities of the state's coercive apparatus -- The paraextension of the state's coercive apparatus : looking at the paramilitary monster -- The debt to humanity -- The legalization of illegality -- One of Colombia's "internal enemies" : the indigenous movement of Cauca -- Features of the new para-narco-state.In Blood and Capital: The Paramilitarization of Colombia, Jasmin Hristov examines the complexities, dynamics, and contradictions of present-day armed conflict in Colombia. She conducts an in-depth inquiry into the restructuring of the state's coercive apparatus and the phenomenon of paramilitarism by looking at its military, political, and legal dimensions. Hristov demonstrates how various interrelated forms of violence by state forces, paramilitary groups, and organized crime are instrumental to the process of capital accumulation by the local elite as well as the exercise of political powerResearch in international studies.Latin America series ;no. 48.Political persecutionColombiaParamilitary forcesColombiaTortureColombiaPolitical violenceColombiaHuman rightsColombiaColombiaPolitics and government1974-Political persecutionParamilitary forcesTorturePolitical violenceHuman rights986.106/35Hristov Jasmin1559420MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910786515403321Blood and capital3824497UNINA