When States Kill: Latin America, the U.S., and Technologies of Terror

by Cecilia Menjívar

Book Overview

Since the early twentieth century, technological transfers from the United States to Latin American countries have involved technologies of violence for social control. As the chapters in this book illustrate, these technological transfers have taken various forms, including the training of Latin American military personnel in surveillance and torture and the provision of political and logistic support for campaigns of state terror. The human cost...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0292706790
• ISBN13: 9780292706798
• Release Date: July 2005
• Publisher: University of Texas Press
• Length: 388 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.1" x 9.0"