Capitalist transformation, social violence and transnational migration. The Obama-Clinton legacy in Central America in macro-sociological and strategic perspective
Whichever party has been in office, the U.S. since the 1980s has strongly promoted the adoption in Central America of neoliberal policies and mechanisms of government while taking no effective measures to combat at its roots the tide of social violence that such policies have helped to engender. The...
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Revue de recherche en civilisation américaine
2017
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| Summary: | Whichever party has been in office, the U.S. since the 1980s has strongly promoted the adoption in Central America of neoliberal policies and mechanisms of government while taking no effective measures to combat at its roots the tide of social violence that such policies have helped to engender. The policy of deporting migrants, including many gang members, back to their countries of birth has only further caused violence to spiral as recently established democratic regimes struggle with issues of basic civil order. The coup d’Etat in Honduras in June 2009, which the Obama administration first condemned but then upheld, serves as an extreme example of how such policies can undermine the social order and open the door to authoritarian regression. The purpose of this article is to begin to account for prevalent forms of social violence in the Northern Triangle of Central America (Guatemala, Honduras, El Salvador) macro-sociologically, taking transnational migration into account, but also strategically, that is, by examining U.S. policy orientations. |
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