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Armed Actors - Organized Violence and State Failure in Latin America (Paperback)
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Armed Actors - Organized Violence and State Failure in Latin America (Paperback)
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In this volume, Latin Americanist scholars explore the recent
evidence relating to the ways in which partial state failure in the
continent is interacting with new types of organized violence,
thereby undermining the process of democratic consolidation that
has characterized Latin America over the past two decades. This
'new violence' stems - as this book's case studies from Colombia,
Peru, Argentina, Venezuela, Brazil and other countries, including
El Salvador, show - from a heterogeneous variety of social actors
including drug mafias, peasant militias and urban gangs
(collectively referred to as actores armadas), as well as
state-related actors like the police, military intelligence
agencies and paramilitary forces. These armed actors are
reproducing organized social and political violence beyond the
confines of democratic politics and civil society. The results, as
the authors warn, include both 'governance voids' - domains where
the legitimate state is effectively absent in the face of armed
actors prevailing by force - and an erosion of the capacity and
willingness of state officials themselves to abide by the rule of
law. These tendencies, in turn, pave the way for a possible
reinstallation of authoritarian regimes under the control of
politicized armies or, at the very least, the spread of state
violence in one form or another. Why these tendencies need to be
taken so seriously is, the authors argue, because of the deeper
social roots underlying them - notably the failure of neoliberal
economic policies and weakened state structures to deliver the
jobs, standards of living and social services every democratic
citizenry has a right to expect. The Argentinian collapse and
persistent Colombian and Venezuelan crises receive special
attention in this regard.
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