Self-defense in Mexico : indigenous community policing and the new dirty wars /

Hernández Navarro, Luis,

Self-defense in Mexico : indigenous community policing and the new dirty wars / Luis Hernández Navarro ; translated by Ramor Ryan. - Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, (c)2020. - 1 online resource (x, 263 pages) - Latin America in translation/en traducción/em tradução .

Translated from the Spanish. Originally published in Spanish under the title of Hermanos en armas : policías comunitarias y autodefensas in Mexico City by Brigada Para Leer en Libertad in July 2014.

Includes bibliographies and index.

Introduction -- Renaissance in the Zapatista Mayan world -- "Nota roja" country -- The emergency brake -- Bitter guerrero -- The community police -- The end of the dream -- The wild west -- The indigenous dawn -- The uprising -- Uncertain times -- Some other pieces of the puzzle -- The rewriting of Frankenstein.



9781469654553 9781469654546


Ejército Zapatista de Liberación Nacional (Mexico)


Community policing--Mexico.
Internal security--Mexico.
Indians of Mexico--Government relations.


Electronic Books.

HV7936 / .S454 2020