Swiss Journal of Sociocultural Anthropology (Jan 2024)

Los Ñetas en quête de transformation ?

  • Martin Lamotte

DOI
https://doi.org/10.36950/sjsca.2023.29.8901
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 29, no. 1

Abstract

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Belonging to the gang Los Ñetas, it is in part observing a certain number of rules which are transcribed in the Liderato, the book of the Ñetas. These rules are accompanied of trials procedure, the mesas disciplinarias, and of sanctions for those transgressing them. Yet, while Ñetas have developed a complex legal order to resolve internal conflicts, trials are little used. Is the Ñetas rules little applied, or little effective? What is the nature of these rules? Can we speak of Ñetas Law? And what is its role, if it is not used in cases of conflict?

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