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Author Martinez, Oscar, author

Title A history of violence : living and dying in Central America / Óscar Martínez ; translated by John B. Washington and Daniela Ugaz ; foreword by Jon Lee Anderson
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Published Brooklyn, NY : Verso, 2016

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Description 1 online resource : maps
Contents Emptiness. The State against Chepe Furia ; The lords of the border ; Guatemala is spelled with a Z ; A nobody in the land of narcos ; Narco : made in Central America -- Madness. Our bottomless well ; The most miserable of traitors ; El Niño Hollywood's death foretold ; The Massacre of Salcajá ; Men who pull out nails -- Fleeing. The tamed coyotes ; Men who sell women ; The prayers of El Salvador's Anti-gang Police Unit ; The unfortunate story of an undocumented am who was sold, extorted, and departed
Notes Online resource, title from PDF title page (Ebsco, viewed on September 13, 2016)
Subject Violence -- Central America
Drug traffic -- Central America
Crime -- Central America
HISTORY -- Latin America -- Mexico.
Crime
Drug traffic
Social conditions
Violence
SUBJECT Central America -- Social conditions -- 1979- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85021890
Subject Central America
Form Electronic book
Author Washington, John B., translator
Ugaz, Daniela, translator
ISBN 9781784781699
178478169X
9781784781705
1784781703