TY  - BOOK
AU  - Brands,Hal
ED  - US Army War College.
TI  - Crime, violence, and the crisis in Guatemala: a case study in the erosion of the state
SN  - 9781584874423
PY  - 2010///]
CY  - Carlisle, PA
PB  - Strategic Studies Institute, U.S. Army War College
KW  - Guatemala
KW  - foreign policy
KW  - drugs
KW  - illegal trade
KW  - criminality
KW  - internal conflicts
KW  - gangs
N1  - "May 2010."
N2  - Guatemala is currently experiencing a full-blown crisis of the democratic state. An unholy trinity of criminal elements: international drug traffickers, domestically based organized crime syndicates, and youth gangs, is effectively waging a form of irregular warfare against government institutions, with devastating consequences. The police, the judiciary, and entire local and departmental governments are rife with criminal infiltrators; murder statistics have surpassed civil-war levels in recent years; criminal operatives brazenly assassinate government officials and troublesome members of the political class; and broad swaths of territory are now effectively under the control of criminal groups. Guatemala's weak institutions have been unable to contain this violence, leading to growing civic disillusion and causing a marked erosion in the authority and legitimacy of the government.--
UR  - http://www.strategicstudiesinstitute.army.mil/pdffiles/PUB986.pdf
ER  -