Specters of revolution : peasant guerrillas in the Cold War Mexican countryside /

Avina chronicles the peasant guerrilla movements that emerged in the southwestern Mexican state of Guerrero during the late 1960s. The National Revolutionary Civic Association and the Party of the Poor organised popular revolutionary armed struggles seeking the overthrow of the ruling Institutional...

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Main Author: Aviña, Alexander (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York : Oxford University Press, 2014.
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Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
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Summary:Avina chronicles the peasant guerrilla movements that emerged in the southwestern Mexican state of Guerrero during the late 1960s. The National Revolutionary Civic Association and the Party of the Poor organised popular revolutionary armed struggles seeking the overthrow of the ruling Institutional Revolutionary Party. Both guerrilla organisations materialized from a decades-long history of massacres and everyday forms of terror committed by local-regional political bosses and the Mexican federal government against citizen social movements that demanded the redemption of constitutional rights.
Physical Description:1 online resource (xiv, 246 pages) : illustrations (black and white), maps (black and white)
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9780199936588
0199936587
9780199345830
019934583X
9780199396689
019939668X