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Contemporary Perspectives on Latin American Terrorism

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Article

Publication Date

Spring 1989

Publication Title

Journal of Third World Studies

DOI

10.2307/45193130

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.

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