Luis Hernández Navarro

(Author)

Self-Defense in Mexico: Indigenous Community Policing and the New Dirty WarsPaperback, 18 May 2020

Self-Defense in Mexico: Indigenous Community Policing and the New Dirty Wars
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Part of Series
Latin America in Translation/En Traducción/Em Tradução
Print Length
278 pages
Language
English
Publisher
University of North Carolina Press
Date Published
18 May 2020
ISBN-10
1469654539
ISBN-13
9781469654539

Description

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 Hernandez Navarro, a leading Mexican journalist, offers a riveting investigation of these armed self-defense groups that sprang up around the time of the 1994 Zapatista uprising in Chiapas. Available in English for the first time, the book spotlights the intense precarity of everyday life in parts of Mexico. Hernandez Navarro shows how the self-defense response, which now includes wealthier rancher and farmer groups, is being transformed by Mexico's expanding role in the multibillion dollar global drug trade, by foreign corporations' extraction of raw minerals in traditionally Indigenous lands, and by the resulting social changes in local communities.
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*But as Hernandez Navarro acknowledges, self-defense is highly controversial. Community policing may provide citizens with increased agency, but for government officials it can be a dangerous threat to the status quo. Leftists and liberals are wary of how the groups may be linked to paramilitary forces and vulnerable to manipulation by drug traffickers and the government alike. This book answers the urgent call to understand the dangerous complexities of government failures and popular solutions.

Product Details

Author:
Luis Hernández Navarro
Book Format:
Paperback
Country of Origin:
US
Date Published:
18 May 2020
Dimensions:
23.39 x 15.6 x 1.6 cm
ISBN-10:
1469654539
ISBN-13:
9781469654539
Language:
English
Location:
Chapel Hill
Pages:
278
Weight:
430.91 gm

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