Book contents
- The Dread Plague and the Cow Killers
- Cambridge Latin American Studies
- The Dread Plague and the Cow Killers
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures and Table
- Acknowledgments
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
- 1 Animals and Government in Mexico
- 2 Sharing Sovereignty in a Technical Commission
- 3 Spiking the Sanitary Rifle
- 4 Soldiers, Syringes, Surveys, and Secrets
- 5 Making a Livestock State
- 6 Mexico and the Cold War on Animal Disease
- Afterword
- Bibliography
- Index
- Cambridge Latin American Studies (continued from page ii)
4 - Soldiers, Syringes, Surveys, and Secrets
Encountering Resistance
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 August 2022
Book contents
- The Dread Plague and the Cow Killers
- Cambridge Latin American Studies
- The Dread Plague and the Cow Killers
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures and Table
- Acknowledgments
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
- 1 Animals and Government in Mexico
- 2 Sharing Sovereignty in a Technical Commission
- 3 Spiking the Sanitary Rifle
- 4 Soldiers, Syringes, Surveys, and Secrets
- 5 Making a Livestock State
- 6 Mexico and the Cold War on Animal Disease
- Afterword
- Bibliography
- Index
- Cambridge Latin American Studies (continued from page ii)
Summary
Chapter 4 examines how the aftosa commission understood and countered opposition, using threats and targeted violence, carefully calibrated concessions, propaganda, mediation by regional bosses and powerbrokers, and information-gathering. It argues that this blend of tactics illustrates the Mexican state’s conceptions of order and security, and supports the notion of the PRI regime as a "dictablanda"- authoritarian but institutionally weak, and reliant on a complicated blend of repressive and consensual mechanisms.
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- The Dread Plague and the Cow KillersThe Politics of Animal Disease in Mexico and the World, pp. 127 - 157Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2022