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Political Science Caribbean & Latin American

Organized Violence

Capitalist Warfare in Latin America

edited by Dawn Paley & Simon Granovsky-Larsen

Publisher
University of Regina Press
Initial publish date
May 2019
Category
Caribbean & Latin American, Social Classes, Developing Countries
  • eBook

    ISBN
    9780889776128
    Publish Date
    May 2019
    List Price
    $29.99

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Official stories from media centers in New York and Mexico City say that most violence in Latin America is a product of the drug trade. Organized Violence exposes how that narrative serves corporate and state interests and de-politicizes situations that have more to do with coal, oil, or rare wood extraction than with cocaine. Global capital and violence reinforce conditions that fortify the current economic order, and whether it be the military, police, or death squads that pull the trigger, economic expansion benefits from the violent elimination of the opposition, who are most often dispossessed Indigenous people.

About the authors

Dawn Paley is author of Drug War Capitalism and is a freelance journalist who has worked in Latin America for over a decade.

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Simon Granovsky-Larsen is an associate professor of Politics and International Studies at the University of Regina and an associate fellow of the Centre for Research on Latin America and the Caribbean at York University.

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