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Series: The Latin America Readers
Published: 01 January 2017
DOI: 10.1215/9780822373865-073
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7386-5
Series: American Encounters/Global Interactions
Published: 30 September 2010
DOI: 10.1215/9780822392859-011
EISBN: 978-0-8223-9285-9
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By Lesley Gill
... paramilitaries drug traffic the state neoliberalism sovereignty ...
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By Lesley Gill
... civic strikes guerrillas USO cold war paramilitaries ...
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By Paul Amar, Editor
Series: Dissident acts
Published: 11 October 2024
EISBN: 978-1-4780-6012-3
... criminal governance crossroads paramilitary group government force nonbinary perspective ...
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By Lesley Gill
Published: 26 February 2016
DOI: 10.1215/9780822374701-006
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7470-1
... This chapter examines the emergence of a violent new configuration of power in Barrancabermeja, between 2000 and 2006, in which paramilitaries forged a realm of de facto sovereignty that was grounded in the violent repression of labor, the suppression of democratic processes, and the control...
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By Ann Farnsworth-Alvear, Marco Palacios, Ana María Gómez López
Series: The Latin America Readers
Published: 01 January 2017
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7386-5
... Simón Bolívar nineteenth-century civil wars Soledad Acosta de Samper guerrilla groups in Colombia paramilitaries ...
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By Alma Guillermoprieto
Series: American Encounters/Global Interactions
Published: 21 March 2025
EISBN: 978-1-4780-6038-3
... Juan Manuel Santos Colombian Peace Process paramilitaries Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias de Colombia (FARC) El Salado, Colombia, massacre ...
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By Alma Guillermoprieto
Series: American Encounters/Global Interactions
Published: 21 March 2025
EISBN: 978-1-4780-6038-3
... Óscar Arnulfo Romero Roberto D’Aubuisson Frente Farabundo Martí para la Liberación Nacional (FMLN) Alianza Republicana Nacionalista (ARENA) paramilitary squads ...
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By Lesley Gill
Published: 26 February 2016
DOI: 10.1215/9780822374701-004
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7470-1
... This chapter documents how counterinsurgent, paramilitary terror unmade Barrancabermeja’s working class by rupturing the fabric of popular solidarity and dispossessing and displacing working people from the late twentieth century to the present. Political violence provided both the preconditions...
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By Alma Guillermoprieto
Series: American Encounters/Global Interactions
Published: 21 March 2025
DOI: 10.1215/9781478060383-007
EISBN: 978-1-4780-6038-3
... Chapter 6 consists of a review of an autobiography by the founder of Colombia’s largest and deadliest paramilitary group, Carlos Castaño. Carlos Castaño Segovia, Colombia, massacre Autodefensas Unidas de Colombia (AUC) Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias de Colombia (FARC) Palace...
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By Ann Farnsworth-Alvear, Marco Palacios, Ana María Gómez López
Series: The Latin America Readers
Published: 01 January 2017
DOI: 10.1215/9780822373865-061
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7386-5
... and the paramilitary leader Carlos Castaño. The point of view of a captured police colonel is provided by the inclusion of a personal letter written by Luis Mendieta, who was held by the guerrillas in substandard conditions at jungle outposts for more than a decade. Simón Bolívar nineteenth-century civil wars...
Series: Dissident acts
Published: 11 October 2024
DOI: 10.1215/9781478060123-009
EISBN: 978-1-4780-6012-3
... between paramilitary groups and government forces as a complex constellation of powers, knowledge, and interests that constitute parastatal state formation. criminal governance crossroads paramilitary group government force nonbinary perspective ...
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By Alma Guillermoprieto
Series: American Encounters/Global Interactions
Published: 21 March 2025
EISBN: 978-1-4780-6038-3
... was signed between the government and Colombia’s oldest guerrilla group, the FARC. Problems and hope abounded. Juan Manuel Santos Colombian Peace Process paramilitaries Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias de Colombia (FARC) El Salado, Colombia, massacre Chapter 6 consists of a review...
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By Alma Guillermoprieto
Series: American Encounters/Global Interactions
Published: 21 March 2025
DOI: 10.1215/9781478060383-006
EISBN: 978-1-4780-6038-3
... Chapter 5 discusses the moment when, after five decades of civil war, a peace agreement was signed between the government and Colombia’s oldest guerrilla group, the FARC. Problems and hope abounded. Juan Manuel Santos Colombian Peace Process paramilitaries Fuerzas Armadas...
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By Paul Amar, Editor
Series: Dissident acts
Published: 11 October 2024
EISBN: 978-1-4780-6012-3
... (paramilitary vigilante protection and extraction operations), which became the dominant governing institution in Rio de Janeiro. militia death squad violence organized crime metropolitan region The commercial sale of sex is not legal in Rio de Janeiro. It is rather better to say that it’s...
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By Lesley Gill
Published: 26 February 2016
DOI: 10.1215/9780822374701-003
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7470-1
.... civic strikes guerrillas USO cold war paramilitaries ...
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By Alma Guillermoprieto
Series: American Encounters/Global Interactions
Published: 21 March 2025
DOI: 10.1215/9781478060383-010
EISBN: 978-1-4780-6038-3
... Frente Farabundo Martí para la Liberación Nacional (FMLN) Alianza Republicana Nacionalista (ARENA) paramilitary squads ...
Series: Dissident acts
Published: 11 October 2024
DOI: 10.1215/9781478060123-007
EISBN: 978-1-4780-6012-3
... to the advance of today’s extreme right. This chapter traces the historical origins of militias (paramilitary vigilante protection and extraction operations), which became the dominant governing institution in Rio de Janeiro. militia death squad violence organized crime metropolitan region ...
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By Alma Guillermoprieto
Series: American Encounters/Global Interactions
Published: 21 March 2025
EISBN: 978-1-4780-6038-3
... Church, is remembered in this chapter, along with his political stand in defense of the poor and oppressed, which made him a target. Óscar Arnulfo Romero Roberto D’Aubuisson Frente Farabundo Martí para la Liberación Nacional (FMLN) Alianza Republicana Nacionalista (ARENA) paramilitary squads...