The United States and Latin American State Terrorism. A Review of (eds.) C. Menjívar and N. Rodríguez's <em>When States Kill: Latin America, the U.S., and Technologies of Terror</em> (Austin: U of Texas P, 2005)

  • Thomas Wright University of Nevada—Las Vegas
Keywords Imperialism, terrorism, Colonialism
Keywords Imperialism, terrorism, Colonialism

Abstract

This edited volume brings the perspectives of sociology, political science, history, anthropology, law, and journalism to bear on the rise of state-sponsored repression and terror that characterized Latin America in the 1970s and 1980s and has continued in some areas to the present.

Author Biography

Thomas Wright, University of Nevada—Las Vegas
Thomas Wright recibió su doctorado en la Universidad de California, Berkeley, y es profesor de historia en la Universidad de Nevada, Las Vegas. Sus investigaciones abarcan temas políticos desde 1900. Sus libros incluyen State Terrorism in Latin America: Chile, Argentina, and International Human Rights (Rowman and Littlefield, 2007); Latin America in the Era of the Cuban Revolution, 2da edición (Praeger, 2001); Flight from Chile: Voices of Exile, con Rody Oñate (New Mexico, 1998); Food, Politics, and Society in Latin America, co-editado con John C. Super (Nebraska, 1985); y Landowners and Reform in Chile: The Sociedad Nacional de Agricultura, 1919-1940 (Illinois, 1982).
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Published
2007-08-01
Issue
Vol. 5 No. 1 (2007): Fall 2007
Section
Reviews: The U.S. and Latin America