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

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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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Main Author: Hernández Navarro, Luis (Author)
Other Authors: Ryan, Ramor (Translator)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Español
Published: Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, [2020]
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Ejercito Zapatista de Liberación Nacional (Mexico)
Politics and government.
Internal security.
Indians of Mexico > Government relations.
Community policing.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Ethnic Studies > Hispanic American Studies.
Sûrete de l'État > Mexique.
Police communautaire > Mexique.
Internal security > Mexico.
Community policing > Mexico.
Mexico.
Mexique > Politique et gouvernement > 1988-2000.
Mexico > Politics and government > 2000-
Mexico > Politics and government > 1988-2000.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
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Summary: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.
Item Description: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.
Physical Description:1 online resource (278 pages).
ISBN:9781469654553

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