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Latin American research review, 2011, Vol.46 (3), p.191-235
Ort / Verlag
USA: University of Pittsburgh Press
Erscheinungsjahr
2011
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Intimately connected to drug trafficking, paramilitary groups have infiltrated political institutions and enjoyed significant political support even as they have used extreme brutality. Since the early 1990s, paramilitaries have grown exponentially in strength, creating a national coordinating body and carrying out military offensives. Many gaps remain in the literature about the role and evolution of paramilitary forces. In part, this reflects the difficulty of researching violent illicit economies and the degree to which public discussion of these issues is ideologically driven. The books examined here, particularly those by Colombian scholars, offer important insights into structural links between paramilitary expansion, democratization efforts, and local governance, building on the groundbreaking studies of Mauricio Romero. The two most ambitious books, Gustavo Duncan's "Los señores de la guerra: De Paramilitares, mafiosos y autoddefensas in Columbia" and Claudia López's massive collection of essays "Y refundaron la patria: De cómo mafiosos y politicos reconfiguraron" argue that paramilitary forces (or warlords, in Duncan's typology) are the result of dramatic changes in Colombia's economic and political landscape, and of reconfigured statehood and governance in many regions.