Community Defense and Criminal Order in Michoacán

Contention in the Grey Area

Dados Bibliográficos

ID4501142
AutoresAntonio Fuentes Díaz (0000-0002-4575-9462, autor correspondente)
Ano2018
Volume45
Fascículo6
Páginas127-139
Data de publicação2018-11-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoLatin American Perspectives (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0094-582X • E-ISSN: 1552-678X
EditoraSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/0094582x17719066
OpenAlexW2737850593
IdiomaDE
Citações recebidas4
Referências citadas8

The self-defense groups of La Ruana and Tepalcatepec and other communities in the Tierra Caliente of Michoacán, Mexico, emerged to oppose both the extortion and violence of the local parastatal order of organized crime and the central state's demands for their disarming and dissolution. They represented a form of governmentality at the local level in which various nonstate actors performed the functions of government, control, and security in the grey area between legality and illegality. Los grupos de autodefensa de La Ruana y Tepalcatepec, así como de otras comunidades de tierra caliente en Michoacán, México, surgieron para contrarrestar las extorsiones y violencia del orden local paraestatal formado por el crimen organizado, así como las exigencias de desarme y disolución del estado central. Representaban una forma de gobernabilidad a nivel local, con varios actores no estatales haciendo las veces de gobierno, control y seguridad en un área gris entre lo legal y lo ilegal

Art · Cartography · Extortion · Geography · Humanities · Order (exchange) · Organised crime · Political science · Principle of legality · State (computer science) · Crime, Illicit Activities, and Governance · History and Politics in Latin America · Law · Politics and Society in Latin America