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Surviving Mexico's Dirty War

Author : Alberto Ulloa Bornemann
Publisher : Temple University Press
Page : 233 pages
File Size : 35,64 MB
Release : 2007
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1592134238

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This is the first major, book-length memoir of a political prisoner from Mexico's "dirty war" of the 1970s. Written with the urgency of a first-person narrative, it is a unique work, providing an inside story of guerrilla activities and a gripping tale of imprisonment and torture at the hands of the Mexican government. Alberto Ulloa Bornemann was a young idealist when he dedicated himself to clandestine resistance and to assisting Lucio Cabañas, the guerrilla leader of the "Party of the Poor." Here the author exposes readers to the day-to-day activities of revolutionary activists seeking to avoid discovery by government forces. After his capture, Ulloa Bornemann endured disappearance into a secret military jail and later abusive conditions in three civilian prisons. Although testimonios of former political prisoners from other Latin American nations have recently come into print, there are very few books about Mexico's political wars—and none as vivid and disturbing as this.

Surviving Mexico's Dirty War

Author : Alberto Ulloa Bornemann
Publisher : Temple University Press
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 10,72 MB
Release : 2007
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781592134243

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A riveting memoir of Mexico's ''dirty wars''

Mexico's Cold War

Author : Renata Keller
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 295 pages
File Size : 18,50 MB
Release : 2015-07-28
Category : History
ISBN : 1107079586

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This book examines Mexico's unique foreign relations with the US and Cuba during the Cold War.

Specters of Revolution

Author : Alexander Avina
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 34,97 MB
Release : 2014-05-23
Category : History
ISBN : 019939668X

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The 1960s represented a revolutionary moment around the globe. In rural Mexico, several guerrilla groups organized to fight against the ruling Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI). Specters of Revolution chronicles two peasant guerrilla organizations led by schoolteachers, the National Revolutionary Civil Association (ACNR) and the Party of the Poor (PDLP), which waged revolutionary armed struggles to overthrow the PRI. Both emerged to fight decades of massacres and everyday forms of terror committed by the government against citizen social movements that demanded the redemption of constitutional rights. This book reveals that these movements developed after years of seeking legal, constitutional pathways of redress, focused on economic justice and electoral rights, and became subject to brutal counterinsurgencies. Relying upon recently declassified intelligence and military documents and oral histories, it documents how long-held rural utopian ideals drove peasant political action that gradually became radicalized in the face of persistent state terror and violence. Placing Mexico into the broader history of post-1945 Latin America, Specters of Revolution explodes the myth that Mexico constituted an island of relative peace and stability surrounded by a sea of military dictatorships during the Cold War.

America's Dirty Wars

Author : Russell Crandall
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 599 pages
File Size : 33,49 MB
Release : 2014-04-28
Category : History
ISBN : 110700313X

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This book examines the long, complex experience of American involvement in irregular warfare. It begins with the American Revolution in 1776 and chronicles big and small irregular wars for the next two and a half centuries. What is readily apparent in dirty wars is that failure is painfully tangible while success is often amorphous. Successfully fighting these wars often entails striking a critical balance between military victory and politics. America's status as a democracy only serves to make fighting - and, to a greater degree, winning - these irregular wars even harder. Rather than futilely insisting that Americans should not or cannot fight this kind of irregular war, Russell Crandall argues that we would be better served by considering how we can do so as cleanly and effectively as possible.

Votes, Drugs, and Violence

Author : Guillermo Trejo
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 379 pages
File Size : 26,34 MB
Release : 2020-09-03
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1108899900

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One of the most surprising developments in Mexico's transition to democracy is the outbreak of criminal wars and large-scale criminal violence. Why did Mexican drug cartels go to war as the country transitioned away from one-party rule? And why have criminal wars proliferated as democracy has consolidated and elections have become more competitive subnationally? In Votes, Drugs, and Violence, Guillermo Trejo and Sandra Ley develop a political theory of criminal violence in weak democracies that elucidates how democratic politics and the fragmentation of power fundamentally shape cartels' incentives for war and peace. Drawing on in-depth case studies and statistical analysis spanning more than two decades and multiple levels of government, Trejo and Ley show that electoral competition and partisan conflict were key drivers of the outbreak of Mexico's crime wars, the intensification of violence, and the expansion of war and violence to the spheres of local politics and civil society.

Chasing ghosts

Author : Adam Rafi Rom
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 10,70 MB
Release : 2003
Category : Mexico
ISBN :

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