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Self-Defense in Mexico : Indigenous Community Policing and the New Dirty Wars /

In Mexico and across other parts of Latin America local Indigenous peoples have built community policing groups as a means of protection where the state has limited control over, and even complicity in, crime and violence. Luis Hernández Navarro, a leading Mexican journalist, investigates these arm...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Hernández Navarro, Luis (Autor)
Otros Autores: Ryan, Ramor (Traductor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Español
Publicado: Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, [2020]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Sumario:In Mexico and across other parts of Latin America local Indigenous peoples have built community policing groups as a means of protection where the state has limited control over, and even complicity in, crime and violence. Luis Hernández Navarro, a leading Mexican journalist, investigates these armed self-defense groups.
Notas:Originally published in Spanish under the title of Hermanos en armas : policías comunitarias y autodefensas in Mexico City by Brigada Para Leer en Libertad in July 2014.
Translated from the Spanish.
Descripción Física:1 online resource (278 pages).
ISBN:9781469654553