Political Science Caribbean & Latin American
Organized Violence
Capitalist Warfare in Latin America
- Publisher
- University of Regina Press
- Initial publish date
- May 2019
- Category
- Caribbean & Latin American, Social Classes, Developing Countries
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- ISBN
- 9780889776128
- Publish Date
- May 2019
- List Price
- $29.99
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Description
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.
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.
