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Monthly Archives: August 2016

Ryan Lochte, Meet Latin America’s Preferred Security Personnel: The Armed Private Guard

Posted on August 29, 2016 by Robert Brenneman
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Dissertation Photos - 62I have temporarily relocated to Guatemala City, where I am preparing to research the topic of private security in Guatemala. Here is my latest post about the Ryan Lochte ordeal on the Oxford University Press website.

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A fascinating window into how street-tough gangbangers abandon the vida loca for evangelical Christianity, trading one set of identity markers, community, and mores for another. Beautifully written and compellingly told! --Virginia Garrard-Burnett, author of Terror in the Land of the Holy Spirit: Guatemala under General Efraín Ríos Montt, 1982-1983

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