Abstract
With its long history of political violence, Latin America would seem a likely region for acts of terrorism. Terrorism is certainly a type of political violence and is defined here as the acts of "identifiable groups that attack governmental or other targets for some various short-range purpose and with the longer range goal in mind of sparking the larger society to oppose (usually violently) the existing government and its poli- cies." The purpose of this paper is to examine the occurrence of such terrorism in present day Latin America.
Original language | American English |
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Journal | Journal of Third World Studies |
Volume | 6 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - Apr 1 1989 |
Disciplines
- Criminology
- Criminology and Criminal Justice
- Legal Studies
- Social and Behavioral Sciences