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Since 2006, more than 85,000 people have disappeared in Mexico. These disappearances remain largely unsolved: disappeared people are rarely found, and the Mexican state almost never investigates or prosecutes those responsible. Despite this, people not only continue to report disappearances, but many devote their lives to answering the question, "where are they?" Given the risks and institutional barriers, why and how do people mobilize for justice in states with rampant impunity and weak rule of law? In Bootstrap Justice, Janice Gallagher leverages over a decade of ethnographic research to explain what enables the sustained mobilization of family members of the disappeared and analyze how c...
No es lo mismo ser candidato que presidente. Así lo ha comprobado Andrés Manuel López Obrador, quien tras llegar al poder se encontró con la realidad compleja de un país con graves problemas. (ITESO)
Son pocas las personas que se dedican a velar por el respeto a las garantías individuales y la defensa los derechos humanos. Este solo hecho ya las hace excepcionales. Por esta misma razón, merecen un mayor reconocimiento debido a las dificultades, el alto costo personal e incluso los peligros que implica este oficio en una cultura donde la actuación del gobierno y otros actores involucrados en este tema es controversial, como es el caso de México. En este libro se presentan los testimonios de 18 personas que han dedicado su vida a defender a escala local, regional, nacional e internacional, los derechos de los demás. Son mujeres y hombres que comparten los motivos que les llevaron a ej...
With an afterword by Natasha Wimmer. Winner of the Herralde Prize and the Rómulo Gallegos Prize. Natasha Wimmer’s translation of The Savage Detectives was chosen as one of the ten best books of 2007 by the Washington Post and the New York Times. New Year’s Eve 1975, Mexico City. Two hunted men leave town in a hurry, on the desert-bound trail of a vanished poet. Spanning two decades and crossing continents, theirs is a remarkable quest through a darkening universe – our own. It is a journey told and shared by a generation of lovers, rebels and readers, whose testimonies are woven together into one of the most dazzling Latin American novels of the twentieth century.