Alexander Aviña
Biographic Data
| ID | 708652 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Alexander Aviña |
| GIVEN NAMES | Alexander |
| FAMILY NAME | Aviña |
| SIGNATURE | AVIÑA A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Arizona State University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 6 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 11 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
From Bandit Hunting to a War Against “Social Poisoners”: Counterinsurgency as Drug War and Drug War as Counterinsurgency in 1960s–1970s Southern Mexico
Notes from the Palestine-Mexico Border: Reflections on empire, genocide, and the violence that has come home to roost
A War to the Death: A Truth Commission set to deliver a final report next year is helping to broaden the conversation on Cold War state terrorism in Mexico. The country’s dirty war, however, never rea…
Mexican soldiers patrol the streets, July 30, 1968. (MARCELLI PERELLÓ / WIKIMEDIA / PUBLIC DOMAIN)In late 1996, Mexican militar y officials seized, disappeared, and tortured Andrés Tzompaxtle Tecpi
El norte chiquito: From ‘dirty wars’ to drug wars in the Guerrero hotlands
Mexico’s so-called “War on Drugs” began as a war on poor people. This article locates the roots of Mexico’s current drug-related violence in a longer history of state terror and violence enacted against social movements and rural communities. The article traces this history by grounding it locally in the guerrerense municipality of Coyuca de Catalán. Resumen: El norte chiquito: De “guerras sucias” a guerras de drogas en Tierra Caliente de Guerrer…
Conflict, Domination and Violence: Episodes in Mexican Social History - by Illades, Carlos
Redeeming the Revolution: The State and Organized Labor in Post-Tlatelolco Mexico
In late August 1968, students in Mexico City organized a 400,000-person march through the city’s busiest thoroughfares. They occupied the Zócalo and raised the red-and-black flag—the international symbol of proletarian militancy and solidarity officially adopted by Mexican labor unions in the 1930s. Days later, after state forces attacked and dislodged the students, a scene took place that microcosmically illustrates an issue that is central to R…
Gladys I. McCormick, The logic of compromise in Mexico: How the countryside was key to the emergence of authoritarianism
Gladys I. McCormick, The logic of compromise in Mexico: how the countryside was key to the emergence of authoritarianism." Canadian Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Studies / Revue canadienne des études latino-américaines et caraïbes, 42(1), pp. 107–108
A Persistent Revolution: History, Nationalism, and Politics in Mexico since 1968
A Persistent Revolution is a synthetic political history of contemporary Mexico that identifies revolutionary nationalism—a flexible, negotiated “cognitive framework” borne from revolution that set the terms and boundaries for contentious engagement between citizens and the state—as the source for political and social stability during moments of severe crisis (p. 8). In his reading of Mexican politics, which focuses largely on ruptures and crises…
Mexico’s Long Dirty War: The origins of Mexico’s drug wars can be found in the Mexican state’s decades-long attack on popular movements advocating for social and economic justice
An Israeli-made military transport aircraft, the Arava 201, reveals the intimate historical links between counterinsurgency, narco-trafficking, and Mexico’s drug wars, which exploded in the mid-200
Specters of Revolution: Peasant Guerrillas in the Cold War Mexican Countryside
Avina chronicles the peasant guerrilla movements that emerged in the southwestern Mexican state of Guerrero during the late 1960s. The National Revolutionary Civic Association and the Party of the Poor organised popular revolutionary armed struggles seeking the overthrow of the ruling Institutional Revolutionary Party. Both guerrilla organisations materialized from a decades-long history of massacres and everyday forms of terror committed by loca…
An Archive of Counterinsurgency: State Anxieties and Peasant Guerrillas in Cold War Mexico
Recently declassified Mexican spy reports that tracked and analysed revolutionary guerrilla organisations during the 1960s and 1970s collectively form an archive of counterinsurgency. The archive produced knowledge on individuals and groups deemed subversive threats to the authoritarian rule of the Partido Revolucionario Institucional (PRI). This article examines one declassified spy report produced in late August 1972 after a peasant guerrilla m…
An Archive of Counterinsurgency: State Anxieties and Peasant Guerrillas in Cold War Mexico
Recently declassified Mexican spy reports that tracked and analysed revolutionary guerrilla organisations during the 1960s and 1970s collectively form an archive of counterinsurgency. The archive produced knowledge on individuals and groups deemed subversive threats to the authoritarian rule of the Partido Revolucionario Institucional (PRI). This article examines one declassified spy report produced in late August 1972 after a peasant guerrilla m…
El norte chiquito: From ‘dirty wars’ to drug wars in the Guerrero hotlands
Mexico’s so-called “War on Drugs” began as a war on poor people. This article locates the roots of Mexico’s current drug-related violence in a longer history of state terror and violence enacted against social movements and rural communities. The article traces this history by grounding it locally in the guerrerense municipality of Coyuca de Catalán. Resumen: El norte chiquito: De “guerras sucias” a guerras de drogas en Tierra Caliente de Guerrer…
An Archive of Counterinsurgency: State Anxieties and Peasant Guerrillas in Cold War Mexico
Recently declassified Mexican spy reports that tracked and analysed revolutionary guerrilla organisations during the 1960s and 1970s collectively form an archive of counterinsurgency. The archive produced knowledge on individuals and groups deemed subversive threats to the authoritarian rule of the Partido Revolucionario Institucional (PRI). This article examines one declassified spy report produced in late August 1972 after a peasant guerrilla m…
Specters of Revolution: Peasant Guerrillas in the Cold War Mexican Countryside
Avina chronicles the peasant guerrilla movements that emerged in the southwestern Mexican state of Guerrero during the late 1960s. The National Revolutionary Civic Association and the Party of the Poor organised popular revolutionary armed struggles seeking the overthrow of the ruling Institutional Revolutionary Party. Both guerrilla organisations materialized from a decades-long history of massacres and everyday forms of terror committed by loca…
Mexico’s Long Dirty War: The origins of Mexico’s drug wars can be found in the Mexican state’s decades-long attack on popular movements advocating for social and economic justice
An Israeli-made military transport aircraft, the Arava 201, reveals the intimate historical links between counterinsurgency, narco-trafficking, and Mexico’s drug wars, which exploded in the mid-200
Gladys I. McCormick, The logic of compromise in Mexico: How the countryside was key to the emergence of authoritarianism
Gladys I. McCormick, The logic of compromise in Mexico: how the countryside was key to the emergence of authoritarianism." Canadian Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Studies / Revue canadienne des études latino-américaines et caraïbes, 42(1), pp. 107–108
A Persistent Revolution: History, Nationalism, and Politics in Mexico since 1968
A Persistent Revolution is a synthetic political history of contemporary Mexico that identifies revolutionary nationalism—a flexible, negotiated “cognitive framework” borne from revolution that set the terms and boundaries for contentious engagement between citizens and the state—as the source for political and social stability during moments of severe crisis (p. 8). In his reading of Mexican politics, which focuses largely on ruptures and crises…
Redeeming the Revolution: The State and Organized Labor in Post-Tlatelolco Mexico
In late August 1968, students in Mexico City organized a 400,000-person march through the city’s busiest thoroughfares. They occupied the Zócalo and raised the red-and-black flag—the international symbol of proletarian militancy and solidarity officially adopted by Mexican labor unions in the 1930s. Days later, after state forces attacked and dislodged the students, a scene took place that microcosmically illustrates an issue that is central to R…
Conflict, Domination and Violence: Episodes in Mexican Social History - by Illades, Carlos
El norte chiquito: From ‘dirty wars’ to drug wars in the Guerrero hotlands
Mexico’s so-called “War on Drugs” began as a war on poor people. This article locates the roots of Mexico’s current drug-related violence in a longer history of state terror and violence enacted against social movements and rural communities. The article traces this history by grounding it locally in the guerrerense municipality of Coyuca de Catalán. Resumen: El norte chiquito: De “guerras sucias” a guerras de drogas en Tierra Caliente de Guerrer…
A War to the Death: A Truth Commission set to deliver a final report next year is helping to broaden the conversation on Cold War state terrorism in Mexico. The country’s dirty war, however, never rea…
Mexican soldiers patrol the streets, July 30, 1968. (MARCELLI PERELLÓ / WIKIMEDIA / PUBLIC DOMAIN)In late 1996, Mexican militar y officials seized, disappeared, and tortured Andrés Tzompaxtle Tecpi
Notes from the Palestine-Mexico Border: Reflections on empire, genocide, and the violence that has come home to roost
From Bandit Hunting to a War Against “Social Poisoners”: Counterinsurgency as Drug War and Drug War as Counterinsurgency in 1960s–1970s Southern Mexico
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