(Des) Militarization and Political Violence: Forced Disappearance as a Dispositive of Necropower in Northern Mexico

The text presents a discussion about the implications that the strategy of militarization of public security implemented since 2006 in Mexico, has generated in relation to the increase in violence in various sectors of the population, and specifically in practice of the forced disappearance by agents of the Mexican State. From the analysis of various sources, it reveals how the implementation of the Operativo Conjunto Chihuahua-Juarez, was the example of a policy based on the production of disposable bodies.

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