Claudio Lomnitz, on mass murder, political violence and the Mexican state, in the New York Review of Books

In reviewing Marcela Turati’s San Fernando, Última Parada, Claudio Lomnitz provides insight into the history of mass violence, illicit economies and the current state of the state in Mexico. Lomnitz's article appears in the September 9th issue of the New York Review of Books. Lomnitz also runs :The Social Study of Disappearance Lab," co-sponsored by the Department of Anthropology and the Institute for Social and Economic Policy and Research