...Robert A. Potash Argentina’s Lost Patrol: Armed Struggle, 1969-1979 . By Moyano María José . New Haven : Yale University Press , 1995 . Map. Tables. Figures. Notes. Bibliography. Index . xiii , 226 pp. Cloth . $25.00 . Copyright 1996 by Duke University Press 1996...

...F. Arturo Rosales The book contains methodological techniques with which I disagree. Lytle Hernández often points to individuals who joined the Border Patrol, especially in its early period, to fulfill a desire to punish Mexicans because of prejudices sometimes harbored since childhood. Only...

...W. Dirk Raat Border Patrol is a story told before, but one always fun to hear, especially around campfires in Mexicali. At times the words are inflated, but Perkins eventually emerges as a competent and credible eyewitness. C. L. Sonnichsen is to be complimented for his efforts in reshaping...

...), and resource maximization (by generating larger budgets) — do not fully explain mission performance. Rather, what most directly explains mission performance are “mission beliefs” (institutional beliefs about “what missions the army should perform”) and “a drive to maintain predictability for patrols...

... for a short period before turning to Díaz, 122 but by late spring each corps had received its regular road patrol assignment. Duties corresponded to those of the former units, although the government placed several corps on special assignment with military commanders. 123 González and his staff...

...’ and railroad executives’ demands for labor resulted in exemptions for tens of thousands of Mexicans. Not surprisingly, there was no significant decline in Mexican migration into the United States when labor demands eased after 1921. Further, even with the creation of the Border Patrol in 1924, there was little...

... by Duke University Press 1982 This book is primarily a description of the mass deportations of Mexican undocumented workers in 1954. García casts the deportation in the historical context of the Bracero Program, United States immigration policy, and Border Patrol operations. The author’s argument...

... is the growing organization and defense of the undocumented immigrant in areas such as back-wages procurement, guarantees of right to counsel, and union organizing. The attitude is succintly captured by farmworker organizer Guadalupe Sánchez: “Would you rather be chased by the Border Patrol while making one...

... with the institution of curfews, sumptuary laws, slave patrols, more rigorous physical punishments, and restrictions on assembly. Slaves responded to these measures in the only way they could—running away, stealing, malingering, poisoning, murdering, and burning. That some were even willing to go as far as to revolt...

... aftermath of the rebellion, Tejanos came to embrace their American citizenship and fight politically for the ideal of “multiracial democracy” (p. 293). Alexandra Minna Stern explores the creation of the U.S. Border Patrol. Stern tells a tale of a hardening border, racist medical quarantines, and punitive...

... by army officers. This military police corps also had 400 men in its ranks by 1850, including a headquarters staff of 10 officers and senior noncommissioned officers, 116 cavalry, and 274 infantry. Armed with two pistols and a sabre, military police soldiers patrolled the streets in small units...

..., leaving six of them to guard Saint Domingue and Torres to defend Spain’s holdings in the Caribbean by himself. 23 The British force which gathered at Port Royal, Jamaica, on January 20, 1741, included over thirty ships of the line, a number of smaller bomb, fire, and patrol vessels, and one hundred...

... the mobilization of reservists and the impressment of evaders: if men captured by patrols belonged to the cohorts already called and could not produce documents exempting them from wartime service, then they were categorized as omisos , who had failed to register, or remisos , who had failed to present. Both...

... argued that the riot would not have occurred if it had not been for the behavior of the “European faction. ’’ He explained that the Europeans, who despised American Spaniards in Quito and even more the plebeian mestizos and Indians, persuaded the corregidor to punish the rioters, using the street patrol...

... with the civilian patrols and worked as supervisors on coffee estates, officials were under pressure to deal fairly with the upper peasantry. However, when planters filed charges against peons, the scales of justice tended to tip in favor of the growers. Peons in the dock were generally from the poorer strata...

... coverage of Menéndez de Avilés’ youth and his final seven years. The story is thus not about Menéndez’ career as a captain general of the Armada de la Guardia de las Indias, the first royal fleet built to patrol the Caribbean and provide escorts for the convoys. Manucy made no pretense in 1965...

... interior room, many taverns had a second, sometimes secret, entrance to the bar, either through an adjoining store or from a dimly lit alley. For further protection, vinateros often hired someone to watch for police patrols. 39 Alcoholic beverages were legally sold outside the pulquerías...

... people; slaves would receive eight days in prison unless their owners ordered one hundred lashes to be administered at the police jail. Police patrols received the summary power to destroy any entrudo laranjas that they found and were to bring offenders before justices of the peace. 81 On the eve...

... Torres was killed during a skirmish with an army patrol. The death electrified Colombians, and set them trying to assess the priest-turned-guerrilla, whose career ended so suddenly in a muddy jungle ravine. Many of the pieces written after that event touched on the ironic fact that troops who killed...

.... As in the West Indies, secondary ports were left to their own resources. Naval forces available to the viceroy, however, were frequently divided between patrolling for interlopers and escorting silver shipments from Callao to Panama. Accordingly, once foreigners made it to the South Sea, they were able to roam...