Bandidos: The Varieties of Latin American Banditry

by Richard W. Slatta

This collection explores the varieties of banditry in Latin America and provides a major comparative testing of Hobsbawm's model of the social bandit. Comprised of a unique collection of essays, it contributes to a more accurate understanding of bandit leaders and followers, as well as to the analysis of banditry as a social phenomenon.

229 pages, Hardcover

First published February 4, 1987