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Crime, violence, and the crisis in Guatemala : a case study in the erosion of the state / Hal Brands.
- Format:
- Book
- Government document
- Author/Creator:
- Brands, Hal, 1983- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Organized crime--Guatemala.
- Organized crime.
- Gangs--Guatemala.
- Gangs.
- Drug traffic--Guatemala.
- Drug traffic.
- Political stability--Guatemala.
- Political stability.
- United States--Foreign relations--Guatemala.
- United States.
- Guatemala--Foreign relations--United States.
- Guatemala.
- Diplomatic relations.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (v, 63 pages)
- Other Title:
- Case study in the erosion of the state
- Place of Publication:
- Carlisle, PA : Strategic Studies Institute, U.S. Army War College, 2010.
- Language Note:
- English.
- Summary:
- Guatemala is currently experiencing a full-blown crisis of the democratic state. An unholy trinity of criminal elements: international drug traffickers, domestically based organized crime syndicates, and youth gangs, is effectively waging a form of irregular warfare against government institutions, with devastating consequences. The police, the judiciary, and entire local and departmental governments are rife with criminal infiltrators; murder statistics have surpassed civil-war levels in recent years; criminal operatives brazenly assassinate government officials and troublesome members of the political class; and broad swaths of territory are now effectively under the control of criminal groups. Guatemala's weak institutions have been unable to contain this violence, leading to growing civic disillusion and causing a marked erosion in the authority and legitimacy of the government.-- Summary from book.
- Contents:
- The regional context : organized crime and irregular warfare in Latin America
- The crisis in Guatemala : origins, characteristics, and effects
- International drug traffickers
- Hidden powers
- Pandillas and Maras
- Violence, corruption, and the erosion of the state
- Policy implications.
- Notes:
- PDF version; title from title screen (viewed on June 4, 2010).
- "May 2010."
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 49-63).
- Other Format:
- Print version: Brands, Hal, 1983- Crime, violence, and the crisis in Guatemala
- ISBN:
- 1584874422
- 9781584874423
- OCLC:
- 637158794
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