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: Avina, Alexander (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: New York Oxford University Press 2014
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Online Access:BSB01
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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
Item Description:Includes bibliographical references and index
Physical Description:1 Online-Ressource
ISBN:9780199345830
DOI:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199936571.001.0001

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