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“When Javier Zamora was nine, he traveled unaccompanied by bus, boat, and foot from El Salvador to the United States to reunite with his…
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What are the social and political consequences of poor state governance and low state legitimacy? Under what conditions does lynching –…
In countries around the world, from the United States to the Philippines to Chile, police forces are at the center of social unrest and…
Based on contributions from leading scholars, this study generates a wealth of new empirical information about Latin American party systems…
“The deeply reported story of identical twin brothers who escape El Salvador’s violence to build new lives in California--fighting to…