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The Battles After the Battle

Interpreting Violence and Memory in Culiacán

1.

Introduction

Three main interpretations dominated early analysis of events.

All were wrong.

Timeline

moments that marked

Editors'

Note

How was this project born and what you will find here

2.

Ending the Narco Spectacle

depictions of violence

continued to emphasize a

narco-narrative

3.

Post-Truths

of Black Thursday

media shaped our understanding

4.

Echoes and Aftermath

Stories of those

who experienced

the violence and

the impact it had

5.

The Two

Black Thursdays

codes of Culiacan and what happens when they are

6.

Cartel,

Culture, and City

some of Culiacán's young men quick

to defend Ovidio?

7.

October 17

as Evidence

of Restraint

What the mobilization

the strategic use of violence

8.

Exposing an Open Secret

The silent truths revealed on

9.

The Open Wound

of the silence and trauma in Culiacán's society.

10.

Precedent, Rupture, and Memory

events like October 17 into a larger story about violence in Mexico

Photo/Jesus Bustamante

This project is a joint effort between the Center for U.S.-Mexican Studies, the Noria Mexico-Central America program, and Revista Espejo.

La versión en español se encuentra aquí

Click here for a PDF version of this project in English. Para PDF en español da click aquí

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