Introduction : The rise and fall of tomorrow -- Death and politics, 1950s-2000s -- 1980s : The gangs to live for -- 1990s and beyond : The gangs to die for -- Democracy and lock-up -- Opening ending
Summary
This ethnohistory examines how the Guatemalan gangs that emerged from the country's strong populist movement in the 1980s had become perpetrators of nihilist violence by the early 2000s
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Includes bibliographical references (pages [145]-176) and index
