Adiós Niño: The Gangs of Guatemala City and the Politics of Death

by Deborah T. Levenson

Book Overview

In Adiós Niño: The Gangs of Guatemala City and the Politics of Death , Deborah T. Levenson examines transformations in the Guatemalan gangs called Maras from their emergence in the 1980s to the early 2000s. A historical study, Adiós Niño describes how fragile spaces of friendship and exploration turned into rigid and violent ones in which youth, and especially young men, came to employ death as a natural way of living for the short period that they...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0822353156
• ISBN13: 9780822353157
• Release Date: April 2013
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Length: 200 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.2" x 9.3"