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Hannes Warnecke-Berger

Politics &
Violence
in Central
America
& the
Caribbean
Politics and Violence in Central America
and the Caribbean
 Hannes Warnecke-Berger

Politics and Violence

in Central America
and the Caribbean
Hannes Warnecke-Berger
University of Leipzig
Leipzig, Sachsen, Germany

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 Acknowledgments

This book would not have been completed without the support, the help,
and the advice of so many people and interview partners. I want to express
my gratitude to all of them. I wish to thank Heidrun Zinecker that she
introduced me to the topic of violence and that she offered me her insights
into the history and the politics of El Salvador. I want to express my sin-
cere thanks for her guidance, for her advice, and for the inspiring conver-
sations we have had and hopefully will continue to have. Furthermore, I
want to thank James Dunkerley for his helpful comments and for appreci-
ating the research I am conducting.
Without any doubts, this research would look different without sharing
a wonderful time with Hartmut Elsenhans. His comments have been a
strong stimulus for this project, his advice always kept me to rethink my
ideas, and finally, he was the person who brought me to political economy.
At University of Leipzig, Michael Riekenberg moreover taught me to
keep my mind open to the very empirics. He brought me to culture and
for this I thank him.
Thomas Plötze’s critiques and honest commentaries have been an
important pillar for my work. Sebastian Huhn furthermore supported me
with his advice. Without the helpful conversations with both of them, I
would not have been able to conduct this research. Kristin Seffer, Stefanie
Dreiack, Sebastian Hoppe, and the colloquium at the chair of interna-
tional relations supported me with their input. Many thanks for this!
Jeanette Aguilar and the team of the Instituto Universitario de Opinión
Pública (IUDOP) provided me a welcoming and productive environment
in El Salvador. The Jacaranda in San Salvador and all its members s­ upported

v
vi ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

me: Clara, Daniela, Conor, Max, and finally Nelson; I want to thank all of
you! I would not have been able to do this research without the conversa-
tions and the support of Mari. She is an amazing friend! Tim in Kingston
and Martha in Belmopan made this research possible. Special thanks to
Neil Wilcock for his extensive help in improving the manuscript.
My warmest thanks are reserved for my family. Thank you Matthias for
mapping the gang turfs. Thank you very much Gudrun for always encour-
aging me to continue. Your support has always been the greatest help of
all. Thanks you very much Frieda and Henriette that you enrich us every
day.
Finally, this book is especially dedicated to my parents.
 Contents

1 Introduction   1

2 Political Economy and/or Culture? Theorizing Forms

of Violence  25

3 The Roots of Current Violence: Historical Comparative

Perspectives on El Salvador, Jamaica, and Belize,
1500–1980  59

4 El Salvador: Transnationalization by Polarization

and the Re-emergence of Violence 127

5 Jamaica: Transnationalization by Force

and the Transformation of Violence 163

6 Belize: Transnationalization by Coincidence and the Rise

of Violence 197

7 Forms of Violence in Comparative Perspective 233

8 The Cultural Political Economy of Violence: A Conclusion 261

Index  279

vii
 List of Abbreviations

ARENA Allianza Republicana Nacionalista (Nationalist Republican

Alliance), El Salvador
BEC Belize Estate and Produce Company, Belize
BPD Belizean Police Department, Belize
FMLN Frente Farabundo Martí para la Liberación Nacional
(Farabundo Martí National Liberation Front), El Salvador
FUSADES Fundación Salvadoreña para el Desarrollo Económico y
Social (Salvadoran Foundation of Social and Economic
Development), El Salvador
GSU Gang Suppression Unit, Belize
IMF International Monetary Fund
IML Instituto Medicina Legal (National Forensic Institute), El
Salvador
JCF Jamaica Constabulary Force, Jamaica
JLP Jamaican Labor Party, Jamaica
MNC Multinational Corporations
MP Member of Parliament
ORDEN Organización Democrática Nacionalista (Democratic
Nationalist Organization), El Salvador
PCS Partido Comunista Salvadoreño (Salvadoran Communist
Party), El Salvador
PNC Policía Nacional Civil (National Civil Police), El Salvador
PNP People’s National Party, Jamaica
PUP People’s United Party, Belize
SAP Structural Adjustment Programs
UDP United Democratic Party, Belize

ix
 List of Figures

Fig. 1.1 Homicides per 100,000 inhabitants in El Salvador, Jamaica,

and Belize, 1930–2015 5
Fig. 2.1 The social organization of violence between political economy
and culture 26
Fig. 2.2 Typology of forms of violence 31
Fig. 6.1 The mosaic of gangs in Belize City 216

xi
 CHAPTER 1

Introduction

Despite their many differences, El Salvador, Belize, and Jamaica have in

common that they lead international statistics on crime and violence.
These three societies even surpass countries that are plagued by wars and
civil wars. Today’s violence in Central America and the Caribbean seems
to be “diffuse” (Call, 2003, p. 843), “anomic” (Zinecker, 2001, p. 166),
and emerging out of the struggle of ordinary people against each other
(Pereira & Davis, 2000). In contrast to former times of civil war when
violence was perceived as political in nature, peacetime violence is said to
serve criminal and more economic ends. Today, it is violence in peace
(Zinecker, 2014).
With regard to violence, El Salvador, Belize, and Jamaica have three
similarities. Firstly, violence is predominantly an urban phenomenon.
Secondly, public discussion and academic discourse both express a certain
bias towards scapegoating youth gangs, highlighting the nexus between
drugs, youth gangs, and politics. Finally, politics opt to combat violence
with repression. Even though the social and geographic context of assaults
and the most visible actors of violence are known, violence itself—the
modus operandi of violence or as the study will call it here, the forms of
violence actors are exerting—is still of minor interest.
Violence in Central America and the Caribbean reflects a deep frustra-
tion that easily morphs into blind rage. It is a diffuse, disruptive, and
destructive violence; violence seems to follow individual passions rather
than political aspirations. It seems as if violence has lost its purpose. For

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