1st Edition

Challenging Authoritarianism in Mexico Revolutionary Struggles and the Dirty War, 1964-1982

Edited By Fernando Calderon, Adela Cedillo Copyright 2012
248 Pages
by Routledge

248 Pages
by Routledge

248 Pages
by Routledge

The Cold War in Latin America spawned numerous authoritarian and military regimes in response to the ostensible threat of communism in the Western Hemisphere, and with that, a rigid national security doctrine was exported to Latin America by the United States. Between 1964 and 1985, Argentina, Chile, Mexico, Brazil, Paraguay, and Uraguay experienced a period of state-sponsored terrorism commonly... Read more

Acknowledgments

Acronyms and Glossary

Preface

Héctor Guillermo Robles Garnica

Introduction: The Unknown Mexican Dirty War

Fernando Calderón and Adela Cedillo

1. "Madera 1965: Primeros Vientos"

Elizabeth Henson

2. Seizing Hold of Memories in Moments of Danger: Guerrillas and Revolution in Guerrero, Mexico

Alexander Aviña

3. At the Vanguard of the Revolution: The Revolutionary Action Movement (MAR) and the Armed Struggle

Verónica Oikión Solano

4. "Por la reunificación de los Pueblos Libres de América en su Lucha por el Socialismo": The Chicana/o Movement, the PPUA and and the Dirty War in Mexico in the 1970s

Alan Eladio Gómez

5. From Books to Bullets: Youth Radicalism and Urban Guerrillas in Guadalajara

Fernando Herrera Calderón

6. A Revolutionary Group Fighting Against a Revolutionary State: The September 23rd Communist League Against the PRI-State (1973-1975)

Romain Robinet

7. Armed Struggle Without Revolution: The Organizing Process of the National Liberation Forces (FLN) and the Genesis of Neo-Zapatismo (1969-1983)

Adela Cedillo

8. Subjugating the Nation: Woman and the Guerrilla Experience

Lucía Rayas

 

9. Armed Forces and Counterinsurgency: Origins of the Dirty War (1965 - 1982)

Jorge Luis Sierra

10. Transcending Violence: A Crisis of Memory and Documentation

Elaine Carey

Contributors

Bibliography

 

 

Biography

Fernando Herrera Calderón is Visiting Assistant Professor at Beloit College.

Adela Cedillo is a graduate student in Latin American Studies at the National Autonomous University of Mexico. She's the author of El fuego y el silencio: Historia de las Fuerzas de Liberacion Nacional de Mexico (1969-1974), the first comprehensive history on the organization that gave birth to the Zapatista National Liberation Army (EZLN).