Armed Actors: Organised Violence and State Failure in Latin America Book

	Introduction	1
1	Armed actors, organized violence and state failure in Latin America : a survey of issues and arguments	5
2	The military and their shadowy brothers-in-arms	16
3	Policing extensions in Latin America	33
4	Civil defence forces : Peru's Comites de Autodefensa Civil and Guatemala's Patrullas de Autodefensa Civil in comparative perspective	52
5	Violence as market strategy in drug trafficking : the Andean experience	73
6	Armed actors in the Colombian conflict	87
7	Venezuela : the remilitarization of politics	106
8	A failed state facing new criminal problems : the case of Argentina	127
9	Urban violence and drug warfare in Brazil	139
10	Youth gangs, social exclusion and the transformation of violence in El Salvador	155
11	Violence and fear in Colombia : fragmentation of space, contraction of time and forms of evasion	172
12	Epilogue : violence and the quest for order in contemporary Latin America	186