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

Other author Menjívar, Cecilia.
Other author Rodriguez, Néstor.
Format Book
Edition1st ed.
Publication InfoAustin : University of Texas Press, 2005.
Descriptionx, 374 pages : 1 illustration ; 24 cm
Supplemental ContentPublisher description
Supplemental ContentTable of contents
Subjects

Contents 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
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
LCCN 2004019668
ISBN0292706472 ((cl.) : alk. paper)
ISBN0292706790 ((pbk.) : alk. paper)

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Joyner General Stacks HV6433.L3 W46 2005 ✔ Available Place Hold