Book contents
- Undermining the State from Within
- Undermining the State from Within
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Abbreviations
- Part I Foundations
- Part II Institutional Origins
- Part III Institutional Persistence
- 7 Transition, Peace, and Postwar Power in Central America
- 8 Guatemala
- 9 Guatemala
- 10 Nicaragua
- 11 Conclusion
- Appendix List of Interviews and Archival Collections
- Bibliography
- Index
9 - Guatemala
The Persistence of Extrajudicial Killing
from Part III - Institutional Persistence
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 23 February 2023
- Undermining the State from Within
- Undermining the State from Within
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Abbreviations
- Part I Foundations
- Part II Institutional Origins
- Part III Institutional Persistence
- 7 Transition, Peace, and Postwar Power in Central America
- 8 Guatemala
- 9 Guatemala
- 10 Nicaragua
- 11 Conclusion
- Appendix List of Interviews and Archival Collections
- Bibliography
- Index
Summary
Chapter 9 chronicles the postwar trajectory of extrajudicial killings within the Guatemalan police. It first examines state violence during the transition period and subsequent postwar police reforms, which included the creation of the new National Civilian Police (PNC) in 1997. The chapter then analyzes how the dominant wartime distributional coalition managed to survive peacebuilding reforms and uphold the undermining rules governing extrajudicial executions to eliminate “undesirables.” In an important contrast from the case of Guatemala’s customs administration, the PNC saw the direct reentry of these groups into the upper echelons of the security cabinet, highlighting a different pathway of institutional persistence.
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- Undermining the State from WithinThe Institutional Legacies of Civil War in Central America, pp. 201 - 218Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2023