Organized Violence: Capitalist Warfare in Latin America

by Dawn Paley, Dawn Paley (Editor), Simon Granovsky-Larsen (Editor), Simon Granovsky-Larsen

Overview

Official stories say that violence in Latin America is a product of criminal activity and the drug trade. Organized Violence exposes how that narrative serves corporate and state interests and de-politicizes events that have more to do with logistics infrastructure, social control, and the extractive industries 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 repressive activities carried out under the guise of fighting crime.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780889776104
Publisher:	University of Regina Press
Publication date:	05/25/2019
Pages:	304
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.50(d)

About the Author

Dawn Paley is the author of Drug War Capitalism. She is trained as a journalist and has worked as a freelance reporter for over ten years. She holds a PhD in sociology from the Meritorious Autonomous University of Puebla, Mexico.

Simon Granovsky-Larsen is an assistant professor of politics and international studies at the University of Regina and author of Dealing with Peace: The Guatemalan Campesino Movement and the Post-Conflict Neoliberal State. His current research explores connections between non-state armed groups and mega-development projects in Guatemala.

Dawn Paley is the author of Drug War Capitalism. She is trained as a journalist and has worked as a freelance reporter for over ten years. She holds a PhD in sociology from the Meritorious Autonomous University of Puebla, Mexico.

Simon Granovsky-Larsen is an assistant professor of politics and international studies at the University of Regina and author of Dealing with Peace: The Guatemalan Campesino Movement and the Post-Conflict Neoliberal State. His current research explores connections between non-state armed groups and mega-development projects in Guatemala.

Table of Contents

List of Tables, Figures, and Illustrations ix

Maps: Conflict Sites Featured in the Book x

Introduction Organized Violence and the Expansion of Capital Simon Granovsky-Larsen Dawn Paley 1

Part I Central and South America

Chapter 1 Extreme Energy Injustice and the Expansion of Capital Mary Finley-Brook 23

Chapter 2 "The Most Dangerous Country in the World": Violence and Capital in Post-Coup Honduras Tyler Shipley 48

Chapter 3 Under Siege: Peaceful Resistance to Tahoe Resources and Militarization in Guatemala Luis Solano 67

Chapter 4 Deadly Soy: The Violent Expansion of Paraguay's Agro-Extractive Frontier Arturo Ezquerro-Cañete 78

Chapter 5 "And Then the Palm Farmers Came": Violence and Women's Resistance in the Colombian Afro-Pacific Region Paula Balduino de Melo 96

Chapter 6 Coal and Conflict: Transnational Investment, Violence, and the Extraction of Mineral Resources in Colombia Rosalvina Otálora Cortés 111

Part II Mexico

Chapter 7 Oil, Gas, and Guns: War, Privatization, and Violence in Tamaulipas, Mexico Guadalupe Correa-Cabrera Carlos Daniel Gutiérrez-Mannix 135

Chapter 8 Legal and Illegal Violence in Mexico: Organized Crime, Politics, and Mining in Michoacán Ana Del Conde Heriberto Paredes Coronet 162

Chapter 9 Criminal Violence and Armed Community Defence in Mexico Antonio Fuentes Díaz 178

Chapter 10 Lázaro Cárdenas, Michoacán: From Mining Enclave to Global Hub Patricia Alvarado Portillo 201

Chapter 11 Elites, Violence, and Resources in Veracruz, Mexico Michelle Arroyo Fonseca Jorge Rebolledo Flores 222

Chapter 12 Punitive Dispossession: Authoritarian Neoliberalism and the Road to Mass Incarceration Elva F. Orozco Mendoza 237

Conclusion Violence, Expansion, Resistance Simon Granovsky-Larsen Dawn Paley 261

Acknowledgements 273

About the Contributors 275

Index 279