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When States Kill: Latin America, the U.S., and Technologies of Terror

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Since the early twentieth century, technological transfers from the US to Latin American countries have involved technologies of violence for social keep watch over. As the chapters in this book illustrate, these technological transfers have taken more than a few forms, including the training of Latin American military staff in surveillance and torture and the provision of political and logistic toughen for campaigns of state terror. The human cost for Latin The us has been enormous—thousands of Latin Americans have been murdered, disappeared, or tortured, and whole communities have been terrorized into silence.

Organized by region, the essays in this book address the topic of state-sponsored terrorism in quite a few ways. Most take the standpoint that state-directed political violence is a modern development of a regional political structure in which U.S. political interests weigh heavily. Others acknowledge that Latin American states enthusiastically received U.S. toughen for their campaigns of terror. A couple of see local culture and history as key factors in the implementation of state campaigns of political violence. Together, all of the essays exemplify how technologies of terror have been transferred among more than a few Latin American countries, with particular attention to the role that the US, as a “strong” state, has played in such transfers.

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