Synopses & Reviews
Murder and Politics in Mexico studies the causes of political killings in Mexico's liberalization-democratization within the larger context of political repression. Mexico's democratization process has entailed a little known but highly significant cost of human lives in pre- and post-election violence. The majority of these crimes remain in a state of impunity: in other words, no person had been charged with the crime and/or no investigation of it had occurred.
Synopsis
With more than 70 per cent of murders of Partido de la Revolución Democrática members remaining unsolved, this study of the causes of political killings in Mexico's ongoing process of democratization puts them firmly in the context of political repression.
Synopsis
PART I: Analytic Considerations.- Mexico's Liberalization--Democratization in Context.- Theortical Dimensions of a Structured System of Impunity for Political Killings.- Authorizing Politcal Killings in Mexico: The Importance of a Destructive Social Milieu.- Disarming the Legal System: Impunity for the Political Murder of Dissidents in Mexico.- Impunity and Electoral Challenges from Below: The Killing Fields of Guerrero.- Impunity for Political Killings in a Comparative Perspective.- Conclusion.- PART II: A History of Violence: Case Studies of PRD Members Killed, 1994.- Appendix.
About the Author
Sara Schatz is a criminology expert currently affiliated with Ohio State University, as an assistant professor for Latin American Studies. She received her PhD. in Sociology at UCLA, an M.A. in Latin American Studies from UC Berkeley, and an M.A. in International Development from UCLA.
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