Self-Defense in Mexico: Indigenous Community Policing and the New Dirty Wars

by Luis Hernaandez Navarro and Luis Hernández Navarro

Book Overview

In Mexico and across other parts of Latin America local Indigenous peoples have built community policing groups as a means of protection where the state has limited control over, and even complicity in, crime and violence. Luis Hernandez Navarro, a leading Mexican journalist, offers a riveting investigation of these armed self-defense groups that sprang up around the time of the 1994 Zapatista uprising in Chiapas. Available in English for the first...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1469654539
• ISBN13: 9781469654539
• Release Date: May 2020
• Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
• Length: 278 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.2"