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• Title: Death Squads As Parallel Forces: Uruguay, Operation Condor, And the United States.
• Author : Journal of Third World Studies
• Release Date : January 22, 2007
• Genre: Politics & Current Events,Books,
• Pages : * pages
• Size : 349 KB

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INTRODUCTION From the 1960s to the 1980s Latin America was convulsed by violence as military-security forces carried out a ruthless "war against subversion." A wave of U.S-backed military coups swept the region and repressive, right-wing military rule was instituted in almost every country. These states, which I term national security states, were characterized by their systematic use of terror, including death squads, to subdue their populations. In this article I use Bruce B. Campbell's definition of death squads as "clandestine and usually irregular organizations, often paramilitary in nature, which carry out extrajudicial executions and other violent acts" (1) against specifically targeted persons, in this case, "subversives." Death squads are almost invariably state-sponsored or state-condoned; they are instruments of state terror. Death squads--anonymous gangs of men that appear autonomous and that use terrorist methods such as bombings, disappearance, extrajudicial execution, and torture-act to terrorize society as a whole as well as to claim individual victims.

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