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Hispanic American Historical Review (2015) 95 (4): 708–709.
Published: 01 November 2015
...Lina Britto Narrating Narcos: Culiacán and Medellín . By Polit Dueñas Gabriela . Illuminations: Cultural Formations of the Americas . Pittsburgh, PA : University of Pittsburgh Press , 2013 . Photographs. Notes. Bibliography. Index. xii, 224 pp. Paper , $27.95 . Copyright © 2015...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2013) 93 (1): 167–169.
Published: 01 February 2013
..., in the 1980s, a center of narco-paramilitary violence. He suggests that Medellín’s brazen narco-paramilitary violence stemmed mainly from the efforts of narco-entrepreneurs to create a “parastate.” For Hylton, this violent process “epitomizes the refeudalization of power” (p. 357). To quote Charles Tilly, we...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2018) 98 (2): 257–292.
Published: 01 May 2018
.... 102. Ibid., fol. 12. 101. ARA, CSJP Huamanga, paq. 558, exp. 1701, fols. 7, 10. 100. Quiroz, Corrupt Circles , 334, 337. 99. “PRT denuncia: ‘Narcos,’” Panorama (Ayacucho), 27 May 1981, p. 1. 98. ARA, CSJP Huamanga, paq. 458, exp. 4554, fol. 188. 97. ARA, CSJP...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2020) 100 (4): 751–753.
Published: 01 November 2020
... and flourished in the fertile soil of horrific narco-violence and economic stagnation. In continuity with Smith's chapter, the next chapter, by Spanish anthropologist Juan Antonio Flores Martos, does not focus directly on Santa Muerte. Instead, Flores Martos explores the larger imaginaries of death...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2020) 100 (2): 368–370.
Published: 01 May 2020
... by private economic interests” (p. 307). Pablo Piccato agrees: to understand the media, you have to think about business and politics, not only the state. And that includes a discussion of the business and politics of narcos in recent years, covered in El Blog del Narco , whose rise and fall are analyzed...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2015) 95 (1): 1–35.
Published: 01 February 2015
... recognized as a public health hazard across the region. Meanwhile, the prefix “narco” is attached to myriad cultural and political actors and has gained its own commercial and popular currency. And, for the first time, a diverse group of Latin American political elites are voicing fresh opinions about...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2015) 95 (3): 556–557.
Published: 01 August 2015
.... Addressing the severe problems facing the Mexican state in light of the drug wars, Dear ultimately takes a hopeful stance. Without glossing over the troubles and dangers that exist, he argues that Mexico is neither a narco-state nor a failed state. Why Walls Won't Work charts how the residents of two...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1997) 77 (3): 543–544.
Published: 01 August 1997
... of uncertain political orientation, especially after the Sino-Soviet split intensified in the early 1960s. As a result, many of Latin America’s guerrilla groups were self-financed, through bank robberies, kidnappings, and even jewel heists. The emergence of large-scale narco-trafficking in the 1970s ultimately...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2016) 96 (4): 756–758.
Published: 01 November 2016
... and 1970s (chapters 7 and 8), and, finally, the narco era (chapter 9). This periodization is not based in shifts in beauty in Colombia; it instead filters beauty from the vantage of “the beast” in order to argue that the two are linked. Here, Stanfield misses an important opportunity to reconsider...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2013) 93 (3): 493–495.
Published: 01 August 2013
... and rational. And, he asserts, there lies a lesson for understanding today’s communities of violence in the region: drug cartels. The vengeance and retaliation that drove much Chiricahua and Hispanic violence in previous centuries are at work today among and between narco-syndicates and the Mexican state...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2003) 83 (3): 606–607.
Published: 01 August 2003
.... He also traces the reach of narco-corruption into the highest levels of Mexico’s government, which makes his neglect of Luis Donaldo Colosio’s assassination puzzling. Finally, Hart stresses the importance of the “almost invisible deeds of individuals” in defining the Mexican-American relationship...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2015) 95 (1): 71–102.
Published: 01 February 2015
... political and intellectual circles to portray narco-trafficking in Colombia as alien — a degenerated, foreign import 4 — these pioneers of the trade were anchored in their localities while seeking to open space for themselves in regional society through the very same cultural practices employed...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2015) 95 (4): 727–746.
Published: 01 November 2015
... Restall, and Stephanie Wood, “Obituary: James Lockhart (1933–2014),” 335 Poblete, Juan (R), 683 Pohl-Valero, Stefan (R), 146 Polit Dueñas, Gabriela, Narrating Narcos: Culiacán and Medellín , 708 Political Essay on the Island of Cuba: A Critical Edition , by Alexander von Humboldt, edited...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2003) 83 (1): 119–150.
Published: 01 February 2003
... and era. Luis Astorga, “Cocaine in Mexico: A Prelude to the Narcos,” chap. 9, in Gootenberg, Global Histories ; Larry Rohter, “A Web of Drugs and Strife in Colombia,” New York Times , 21 April 2000; predictably, Colombian coca has growing alkaloidal strength, and cocaine processing is becoming far more...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2015) 95 (1): 37–69.
Published: 01 February 2015
... (Buenos Aires), 17 Nov. 1984, pp. 48–49. See also “El tabú de la droga,” Cerdos y Peces (Buenos Aires), Sept. 1983, p. 4. 102. “Fumo sí, narcos no,” El Porteño (Buenos Aires), May 1988, pp. 14–15. 101. Enrique Symns, “Despenalizar la marihuana,” Cerdos y Peces (Buenos Aires), Aug. 1983...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2021) 101 (1): 35–72.
Published: 01 February 2021
... the historiography of technology in the region. For an exception on narco-trafficking in late twentieth-century Colombia, see Guerrero C., Narcosubmarines . 65. Nueva Era (Mexico City), 21 Nov. 1911. 66. Código penal , article 368. 67. Jacinto Pallares, quoted in Sodi, Nuestra ley penal...
