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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Format: | Électronique eBook |
Langue: | Inglés Español |
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Chapel Hill :
The University of North Carolina Press,
[2020]
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Collection: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Accès en ligne: | Texto completo |
Résumé: | 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. |
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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. |
Description matérielle: | 1 online resource (278 pages). |
ISBN: | 9781469654553 |