Adiós Niño: The Gangs of Guatemala City and the Politics of Death

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Adiós Niño Adiós Niño The GANGs of GuATemAlA CiTy ANd The PoliTiCs of deATh deborah T. levenson Duke University Press Durham and London 2013 © 2013 Duke University Press All rights reserved Printed in the United States of America on acid-free paper ♾ Typeset in Quadraat by Tseng Information Systems, Inc. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Levenson-Estrada, Deborah. Adiós niño : the gangs of Guatemala City and the politics of death / Deborah T. Levenson. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. isbn 978-0-8223-5299-0 (cloth : alk. paper) isbn 978-0-8223-5315-7 (pbk. : alk. paper) 1. Gangs—Guatemala—Guatemala—History. 2. Gangs— Political aspects—Guatemala—Guatemala. 3. Gang members—Guatemala—Guatemala. 4. Juvenile delinquency—Guatemala—Guatemala. 5. Problem youth— Guatemala—Guatemala. 6. Guatemala (Guatemala)—Social conditions—20th century. I. Title. hv6439.g92g9199 2013 364.106′60972811—dc23 2012044748 Frontispiece: Young boys running alongside a funeral car carrying to his burial a young man killed in El Hoyón Prison, 2005. Credit: Victor J. Blue. To Life for ANA ANd JAsmiN ...