Indigenous Resistance to Criminal Governance: Why Regional Ethnic Autonomy Institutions Protect Communities from Narco Rule in Mexico
This article explains why some indigenous communities in Mexico have been able to resist drug cartels’ attempts to take over their local governments, populations, and territories while others have not. While indigenous customary laws and traditions provide communal accountability mechanisms that mak...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Cambridge University Press
2019-04-01
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| Series: | Latin American Research Review |
| Online Access: | https://larrlasa.org/articles/377 |