The Last Door - Mccormick, Gladys I.

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Résumé :
McCormick has written a deeply moving and meticulously researched history of the Mexican Dirty War by focusing on one of its main technologies: torture. The stories she narrates make for poignant reading and demonstrate how state terror and violence formed a structural feature of the PRI's long rule over the country. What also makes this excellent scholarship so compelling is its tragically direct relevance to Mexico today.--Alexander Avi?a, author of Specters of Revolution: Peasant Guerrillas in the Cold War Mexican Countryside

In this groundbreaking study of state terror and impunity in Cold War Mexico, McCormick rejects the notion of the single-party PRI state as being exceptional in the broader Latin American region. With careful attention to her training in gender and memory studies, she points to the subversive decade of the 1970s as a critical period in the nation's 'dirty war' history that witnessed the emergence of innovative and institutionalized counterinsurgency tools, which are still operating in Mexico today.--Jaime M. Pensado, author of Love and Despair: How Catholic Activism Shaped Politics and the Counterculture in Modern Mexico

The Last Door is an astonishing account of torture in Mexico that explains how the state institutionalized cruelty to ensure its power and crush dissent. McCormick weaves dozens of interviews with activists and revolutionaries who survived torture in the 1970s into an extraordinary story of political violence that persists today.--Kate Doyle, Senior Analyst, National Security Archive...

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McCormick has written a deeply moving and meticulously researched history of the Mexican dirty war by focusing on one of its main technologies: torture. The stories she narrates make for poignant reading and demonstrate how state terror and violence formed a structural feature of the PRI's long rule over the country. What also makes this excellent scholarship so compelling is its tragically direct relevance to Mexico today.--Alexander Avi?a, author of Specters of Revolution: Peasant Guerrillas in the Cold War Mexican Countryside

In this groundbreaking study of state terror and impunity in Cold War Mexico, McCormick rejects the notion of the single-party PRI state as being exceptional in the broader Latin American region. With careful attention to her training in gender and memory studies, she points to the subversive decade of the 1970s as a critical period in the nation's 'dirty war' history that witnessed the emergence of innovative and institutionalized counterinsurgency tools, which are still operating in Mexico today.--Jaime M. Pensado, author of Love and Despair: How Catholic Activism Shaped Politics and the Counterculture in Modern Mexico

The Last Door is an astonishing account of torture in Mexico that explains how the state institutionalized cruelty to ensure its power and crush dissent. McCormick weaves dozens of interviews with activists and revolutionaries who survived torture in the 1970s into an extraordinary story of political violence that persists today.--Kate Doyle, Senior Analyst, National Security Archive...