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Book Pistoleros   The Chronicles of Farquhar McHarg

Download or read book Pistoleros The Chronicles of Farquhar McHarg written by Farquhar McHarg and published by PM Press. This book was released on 2011-12-01 with total page 405 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Barcelona, 1976: Hired gunmen brutally murder a lifelong friend and fellow anarchist, forcing Farquhar McHarg into a race to document an epic history before he too can be silenced. The first volume of his memoirs finds him a Glasgow boy, dropped by chance into Barcelona’s revolutionary underworld at the tail end of the great imperialist war of 1914–1918, recruited by Spanish anarchists to act as a go-between with Britain’s Secret Service Bureau. McHarg tells of a corrupt and brutal Spanish regime, bent on bringing a rebellious working class back under its heel, and the generous and recklessly idealistic men and women who struggled to transform it after rejecting traditional party politics. Pistoleros! is a thrilling tale of intrigue and romance, and a sweeping inside view of the saboteurs and spies, the capitalists and bold insurrectionaries of Spain’s bloody past.

Book Pistoleros and Popular Movements

Download or read book Pistoleros and Popular Movements written by Benjamin T. Smith and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2009-01-01 with total page 607 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The postrevolutionary reconstruction of the Mexican government did not easily or immediately reach all corners of the country. At every level, political intermediaries negotiated, resisted, appropriated, or ignored the dictates of the central government. National policy reverberated through Mexico s local and political networks in countless different ways and resulted in a myriad of regional arrangements. It is this process of diffusion, politicking, and conflict that Benjamin T. Smith examines in Pistoleros and Popular Movements. Oaxaca s urban social movements and the tension between federal, state, and local governments illuminate the multivalent contradictions, fragmentations, and crises of the state-building effort at the regional level. A better understanding of these local transformations yields a more realistic overall view of the national project of state building. Smith places Oaxaca within this larger framework of postrevolutionary Mexico by comparing the region to other states and linking local politics to state and national developments. Drawing on an impressive range of regional case studies, this volume is a comprehensive and engaging study of postrevolutionary Oaxaca s role in the formation of modern Mexico.

Book Pistolero

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  • Author : William E. McClintock
  • Publisher : William E. McClintock
  • Release : 2016-12-06
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 105 pages

Download or read book Pistolero written by William E. McClintock and published by William E. McClintock. This book was released on 2016-12-06 with total page 105 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Pistolero

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  • Author : Paul Bedford
  • Publisher : Robert Hale Ltd
  • Release : 2017-04-01
  • ISBN : 0719822572
  • Pages : 130 pages

Download or read book Pistolero written by Paul Bedford and published by Robert Hale Ltd. This book was released on 2017-04-01 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the summer of 1872 a deadly pistolero, Brett Dalton, is hired to assassinate President Ulysses S. Grant as he embarks on a re-election campaign across the western states. The president will be travelling via the Union Pacific Railroad, and when his locomotive stops to take on water at an isolated pumping station on the Nebraska/Wyoming border the lethal plot will be launched. With hostile Sioux Indians also planning to attack the train, it is up to Thaddeus McEvoy, a special investigator in the newly formed Department of Justice, to save Grant's life. With Widower, Tatum Barklam, and his beautiful daughter, Sarah, are used to a predictable life at the pumping station, but they are about to experience a very different pace when Dalton and his gang of desperadoes come thundering into their lives.

Book A History of Infamy

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  • Author : Pablo Piccato
  • Publisher : Univ of California Press
  • Release : 2017-04-25
  • ISBN : 0520966074
  • Pages : 387 pages

Download or read book A History of Infamy written by Pablo Piccato and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2017-04-25 with total page 387 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A History of Infamy explores the broken nexus between crime, justice, and truth in mid-twentieth-century Mexico. Faced with the violence and impunity that defined politics, policing, and the judicial system in post-revolutionary times, Mexicans sought truth and justice outside state institutions. During this period, criminal news and crime fiction flourished. Civil society’s search for truth and justice led, paradoxically, to the normalization of extrajudicial violence and neglect of the rights of victims. As Pablo Piccato demonstrates, ordinary people in Mexico have made crime and punishment central concerns of the public sphere during the last century, and in doing so have shaped crime and violence in our times.

Book Jim Levy Pistolero

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  • Author : Wayne T. Diemond
  • Publisher : PublishAmerica
  • Release : 2011-05-16
  • ISBN : 1629078212
  • Pages : 144 pages

Download or read book Jim Levy Pistolero written by Wayne T. Diemond and published by PublishAmerica. This book was released on 2011-05-16 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Story of an old West gambler and gunman that was gunned down on the street in front of the Palace Hotel in Tucson in 1882.

Book Gangsterismo

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  • Author : Jack Colhoun
  • Publisher : OR Books
  • Release : 2013-04-01
  • ISBN : 1935928902
  • Pages : 536 pages

Download or read book Gangsterismo written by Jack Colhoun and published by OR Books. This book was released on 2013-04-01 with total page 536 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gangsterismo is an extraordinary accomplishment, the most comprehensive history yet of the clash of epic forces over several decades in Cuba. It is a chronicle that touches upon deep and ongoing themes in the history of the Americas, and more specifically of the United States government, Cuba before and after the revolution, and the criminal networks known as the Mafia. The result of 18 years’ research at national archives and presidential libraries in Kansas, Maryland, Texas, and Massachusetts, here is the story of the making and unmaking of a gangster state in Cuba. In the early 1930s, mobster Meyer Lansky sowed the seeds of gangsterismo when he won Cuban strongman Fulgencio Batista’s support for a mutually beneficial arrangement: the North American Mafia were to share the profits from a future colony of casinos, hotels, and nightclubs with Batista, his inner circle, and senior Cuban Army and police officers. In return, Cuban authorities allowed the Mafia to operate its establishments without interference. Over the next twenty-five years, a gangster state took root in Cuba as Batista, other corrupt Cuban politicians, and senior Cuban army and police officers got rich. All was going swimmingly until a handful of revolutionaries upended the neat arrangement: and the CIA, Cuban counterrevolutionaries, and the Mafia joined forces to attempt the overthrow of Castro. Gangsterismo is unique in the literature on Cuba, and establishes for the first time the integral, extensive role of mobsters in the Cuban exile movement. The narrative unfolds against a broader historical backdrop of which it was a part: the confrontation between the United States and the Cuban revolution, which turned Cuba into one of the most perilous battlegrounds of the Cold War. ……………………………… “The anti-communist hysteria generated by the Cold War frequently unhinged the policy judgments of US government officials in many areas, but nowhere so completely as in our relations with Cuba. This conclusion is inescapable as Gangsterismo brilliantly unravels the bizarre tale of the Mafia army the Kennedy brothers recruited in their manic determination to rid Cuba of Castro, that vexing, seemingly indomitable Communist.” —Martin J. Sherwin, co-winner of the Pulitzer Prize (together with Kai Bird) for American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer “What is shocking is not what is new, but how much that is old – already on the record in presidential and other archives, CIA and FBI files, memoirs and histories – in Jack Colhoun’s Gangsterismo. Drawing on the National Security Archives, papers and books, public and private, he damningly documents the pathetic, incompetent and sometimes comic, but always inappropriate and anti-democratic, attempts by the CIA and/or its confederates, working in tandem with members of the mob, to assassinate Castro and overthrow the Cuban revolution.” —Victor S. Navasky, publisher emeritus, The Nation; professor, Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism “Gangsterismo is an invaluable addition to our background knowledge about that small island nation that has incurred so much devotion and ire from U.S. Americans. Books about Cuba abound, but this one lays bare an often forgotten pre-revolutionary history of U.S.-based organized crime, and subsequent hidden U.S. government covert action. Colhoun has done his homework. This is a must-read.” —Margaret Randall, author of To Change the World: My Years in Cuba “Few aspects of Cuba-U.S. relations have so doggedly resisted serious inquiry as the subject of organized crime in Cuba. Much of what we know has reached us by way of popular culture, principally through film and fiction, to which the subject of the underworld in the tropics so aptly lends itself. Colhoun represents a breakthrough: serious scholarship on a serious subject. He casts light upon one of the darkest recesses of a dark history, calling attention to the convergence of interests between the underworld of criminal activity and nether world of covert operations – and reveals in the process that film and fiction have actually only scratched the surface of a sordid story.” —Louis A. Pérez, Jr.editor, Cuba Journal; professor of history, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Book Gangland  2 volumes

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  • Author : Laura L. Finley
  • Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
  • Release : 2018-10-01
  • ISBN : 1440844747
  • Pages : 679 pages

Download or read book Gangland 2 volumes written by Laura L. Finley and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2018-10-01 with total page 679 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This two-volume set integrates informative encyclopedia entries and essential primary documents to provide an illuminating overview of trends in gang membership and activity in America in the 21st century. Gangland: An Encyclopedia of Gang Life from Cradle to Grave includes extended discussion of specific gangs; types of gangs based on ethnicity and environment (rural, suburban, and urban); recruitment and retention methods; leadership structure and other internal dynamics of various gangs; impacts of gang membership on extended family; the historical evolution of gangs in American society; depictions of gang life in popular culture; violent and nonviolent gang activities; and programs, policies, agencies, and organizations that have been crafted to combat gang activities. In addition, the encyclopedia includes a suite of primary sources that offer a look into the personal experiences of gang members, examine efforts by law enforcement and public officials to address gang activity, and address wider societal factors that make eradicating gangs such a difficult task.

Book Edge of Dark on Thunder Road

Download or read book Edge of Dark on Thunder Road written by J. V. Pelt and published by Page Publishing Inc. This book was released on 2020-10-06 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The meth war has exploded in East Tennessee, pitting a Mexican drug cartel against the Tennessee mountain men for control of the lucrative drug market. State, local, and federal law enforcement agencies adopt a "hands-off" policy to the carnage and, instead, employ Bradley International Security as their surrogate operative. Blood flows into streets and on the mountainsides as the struggle of cultures culminates to a cataclysmic conclusion. B. J. Quill, former military intelligence officer and combat veteran, heads up the surveillance and counter insurgency operations for Bradley—only to find out he has been set up by his own organization. Curt Townsend, respected businessman and community leader, is in fact the de facto godfather of the mountain men in the drug trade business. Working in conjunction with Leroy McBride, they have fashioned a lethal but loosely knit group of the McBride clan, their kinfolk, and other related mountain men. "Don Richie" Montoto is the acknowledged titular leader of the Mexican interlopers. With his brothers, other relatives, and blindly loyal pistoleros, they represent power, organization, and sophistication. The seesaw battle for territorial dominance grows increasingly violent with deadly reprisals as both groups attempt to destroy the others viability. But the stakes are high and the rewards substantial for the eventual victor.

Book Federal Register

Download or read book Federal Register written by and published by . This book was released on 1997-12-17 with total page 900 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Unrevolutionary Mexico

Download or read book Unrevolutionary Mexico written by Paul Gillingham and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2021 with total page 460 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An essential history of how the Mexican Revolution gave way to a unique one-party state In this book Paul Gillingham addresses how the Mexican Revolution (1910-1940) gave way to a capitalist dictatorship of exceptional resilience, where a single party ruled for seventy-one years. Yet while soldiers seized power across the rest of Latin America, in Mexico it was civilians who formed governments, moving punctiliously in and out of office through uninterrupted elections. Drawing on two decades of archival research, Gillingham uses the political and social evolution of the states of Guerrero and Veracruz as starting points to explore this unique authoritarian state that thrived not despite but because of its contradictions. Mexico during the pivotal decades of the mid-twentieth century is revealed as a place where soldiers prevented military rule, a single party lost its own rigged elections, corruption fostered legitimacy, violence was despised but decisive, and a potentially suffocating propaganda coexisted with a critical press and a disbelieving public.

Book Second Chance

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  • Author : R Richard
  • Publisher : Club Lighthouse Publishing
  • Release : 2009-08-01
  • ISBN : 1897532644
  • Pages : 213 pages

Download or read book Second Chance written by R Richard and published by Club Lighthouse Publishing. This book was released on 2009-08-01 with total page 213 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Justin Imperiale finds that there are those who are growing and storing illegal weed in Zaya and not paying Justin his taxes. He investigates and then sets up a plan to raid a main weed storehouse in Zaya. The raid of the weed warehouse goes well and Justin gains weed, money and more weed from a truck delivering the stuff to the warehouse. Justin then leads a small scale military expedition into the area where some of the locals are growing illegal weed. Justin and his men then seize all the property of the weed growing drug lords, for non-payment of taxes. He finds that there's to be a major drug shipment up from the South of Zaya and through the territories of the few warlords who still control parts of Zaya. With the help of professional train controllers, Justin plans a raid on the drug train that's to transport the contraband through Zaya. With the help of the train controllers, his Commandos and his Voya subjects, who live in the southern jungles of Zaya, Justin steals a train in Golomon, to the South of Zaya, and hijacks the drug train cargo.Justin gets the stolen train into Zaya, but the train then suffers what the train people call a 'hot box' on one of the wheel assemblies of a car. The train can't be moved further without damage. Justin, his Commandos and the Voya set up a defence for the stalled train. Army forces from Golomon, to the South of Zaya, then try to pursue the stolen train. There's another jungle war and Justin's forces rout the Golomon forces. Justin goes to the Association of Nations people in Mervon. There's a considerable flap about stolen trains.Justin flim flams the President of the Association of Nations and lets the President know that there will probably be trouble in Golomon. The trouble will involve Justin's Voya people and Justin will intervene.Justin then asks the Association of Nations to expel Golomon, after he proves that the train in carrying drugs. Of course, Justin knows that the Association of Nations won't expel Golomon, but that the discovery of drug smuggling will make further Golomon invasion of Zaya totally impractical politically.A patrol boat arrives from out of space, piloted by a single, very beautiful woman. The woman is interrogated by Head Priests of the Temples of Averon and found to be very dangerous trap for Justin. He arranges to abandon the woman where she'll be captured by the Sky Path people, an original inhabitant revolutionary group. The woman and the Sky Path people will neutralize each other for a while. He flies down to the South of Zaya and, with Voya warriors, invades Golomon. Justin and a pitifully small force manage to fight a delaying action, until Zayan soldiers can arrive.The arrival of the Zayan soldiers results in a rout of the Golomon Army and Justin becomes the King of Golomon. In the wrap up of the conquest of Golomon, Justin flies a very sick Voya woman to a hospital in the very South of Golomon. There, he becomes involved with Mokasato original inhabitants.Justin then enters the Temple of The Mad King and, as a result, becomes the King of The Sky for the Mokasato. With the help of the Mokasato, Justin then conquests Helgryn, the country to the South of Golomon. Justin then begins the running of his new Kingdoms in Golomon and Helgryn to benefit the citizens and not just a few rich families.He then receives a message, in the Galactic language from the South Continent. The sender claims to be from the planet Glyon.

Book Texas Advance Sheet February 2012

Download or read book Texas Advance Sheet February 2012 written by and published by Fastcase Inc. This book was released on with total page 5169 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Hangman s Choice

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  • Author : Ralph Cotton
  • Publisher : Cotton-Branch Publishers
  • Release : 2018-10-16
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 253 pages

Download or read book Hangman s Choice written by Ralph Cotton and published by Cotton-Branch Publishers. This book was released on 2018-10-16 with total page 253 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Federal Deputy Sullivan Hart arrived too late to rescue his father. But the elder Hart managed to identify his killers before his death - by scrawling the phrase Los Pistoleros in his own blood. Since the end of the Civil War, this outlaw gang has been involved in everything from cattle rustling to running guns - without getting caught. Sullivan Hart aims to end that lucky streak. But Sullivan isn't the only man on the hunt. Quick Charlie Sims, gambler and con man, has his own debt to settle with Los Pistoleros. And he's got to do it without letting lawmen like Sullivan Hart get involved. Because Charlie Sims is a wanted man, too . . .

Book The Dead or Alive Trilogy

Download or read book The Dead or Alive Trilogy written by Ralph Cotton and published by Cotton-Branch Publishing. This book was released on with total page 751 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume contains three previously published novels in their entirety: Hangman’s Choice Federal Deputy Sullivan Hart arrived too late to rescue his father. But the elder Hart managed to identify his killers before his death—by scrawling the phrase “Los Pistoleros” in his own blood. Since the end of the Civil War, this outlaw gang has been involved in everything from cattle rustling to running guns—without getting caught. Sullivan Hart aims to end that lucky streak. But Sullivan isn’t the only man on the hunt. Quick Charlie Sims, gambler and con man, has his own debt to settle with Los Pistoleros. And he’s got to do it without letting lawmen like Sullivan Hart get involved. Because Charlie Sims is a wanted man, too.... Devil’s Due Federal Deputy Sullivan Hart thinks he has broken the back of the outlaw organization Los Pistoleros after he arrests its leader, J.T. Priest— the man who killed his father. But just before his trial, Priest escapes from jail, and he’s determined to rebuild his criminal empire. Hart knows that if he’s ever to put his father’s ghost to rest, he must stop the outlaw once and for all. Only Quick Charlie Sims knows where Priest is planning to meet up with the rest of his gang. And Hart is none too sure he can trust the wily gambler, who has his own debt to settle with Los Pistoleros’ leader—and his own interest in the organization.... Blood Money Ever since Federal Deputy Sullivan Hart lost his father to ruthless J.T. Priest, he’s hoped to find the outlaw leader and bring him down. When hanging judge Isaac Parker sends Hart and his partner, Twojack Roth, to break up Priest’s infamous gang, Los Pistoleros, he is only too willing to fulfill his duty. With the price on Priest’s head rising, gunmen from the East and the West alike come forward, rifles in their hands and dollar signs in their eyes. Hart and Roth need all the help they can get to catch Priest and his crew, who’ve stolen a million dollars—and taken a pretty hostage. Joining Hart’s hunt is former bounty hunter Jake Coak and the ever resourceful “Quick Charlie” Sims. With these two on his side, Hart sets out on a trail leading to a final desert showdown in this the concluding third book in the Dead Or Alive Trilogy.

Book Inter American Yearbook on Human Rights   Anuario Interamericano de Derechos Humanos  Volume 20  2004

Download or read book Inter American Yearbook on Human Rights Anuario Interamericano de Derechos Humanos Volume 20 2004 written by Inter-American Commission on Human Rights and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2022-08-22 with total page 1499 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Beneath the Wings of Geronimo s Spirit

Download or read book Beneath the Wings of Geronimo s Spirit written by R. James Roybal and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2013-09-17 with total page 285 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: San Augustino said quietly. Be careful with that blade Robert. You might cut yourself! San Augustino was rewarded with Robert shouting a fearful battle cry and charging with his saber held high in an anticipated downward thrust! Gasps of horror could be heard at the display of the ungentlemanly like conduct! Robert on the other hand, was beginning to become disheartened with what he thought was going to be an easy victory with his surprise attack. He was mentally out of balance because his saber had only cut air and hit the ground! Worse was the sudden realization that he had complexly missed San Augustino and was now lying with his face in the mud! Robert immediately jumped up screaming in frustrated anger aided by the feeling of the pain of an imaginary saber blade in his back! Robert knew in his heart that he would have taken advantage of the situation, if the tables had been turned and Augustino had been the one sliding on his face. Robert neednt have feared, because San Augustino was still standing perfectly poised about ten feet away almost in the same position that he had been standing when Robert had originally charged! It was almost as if San Augustino had not moved! Robert suddenly felt a stinging sensation on his chest and looking down was horrified to see a thin red streak that was starting to spread his across his white shirt! It was the thinnest of cuts and although not very wide looked painfully deep and more importantly, was rapidly bleeding his strength away!