Titlebook: Meanings of Violence in Contemporary Latin America; Gabriela Polit Dueñas,María Helena Rueda Book 2011 Palgrave Macmillan, a division of N

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Fuerte Apache,s of residents signed a petition asking President Néstor Kichner to allow . or . (ninja turtles), as the national guardsmen are commonly known, to remain in the neighborhood. In the first chronicle, Cristian Alarcón describes daily life in this land of urban relegation. At this time, the chronicler

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Introduction,vative ways to understand this situation and its effects on society. As an interdisciplinary endeavor, it also provides an array of perspectives that contribute to ongoing debates on the study of violence in the region.

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,An Aesthetic Event: Ricardo Wiesse’s Cantutas and Political Violence in Peru,d to radicalize the “dirty war” by a strategy inherited from the worst years of the 1980s, that is during Fernando Belaunde Terry’s administration: the violence of Sendero Luminoso was to be met by even greater state-sponsored terrorism.

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,Chronicles of Everyday Life in Culiacán, Sinaloa, who cover the news on the war occupy a vulnerable position. This chapter explores the work of Javier Valdez, a journalist from Culiacan whose personal and institutional trajectory shows the risks of working as a journalist in contemporary Mexico.

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