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The purpose of this paper is to illustrate how documents generated as a result of the cooperation between the secret police and the military provide evidence of human rights violations committed during Mexico's dirty war in the sixties and seventies. The paper analyses three cases concerning militants belonging to the National Liberation Forces (FLN), detained and ‘disappeared’ during a counterinsurgency operation called Operacion Diamante. The reports reveal that the military made arrests without legal authorisation, and instead of presenting prisoners to the authorities for prosecution, transferred them to clandestine military prisons. Identification cards provide a face for the ‘disappeared’. Evidence such as these secret police files have led victims' relatives to file formal legal complaints about the ‘forced disappearance’ of their loved ones.

Acknowledgments Acronyms and Glossary Preface Hector Guillermo Robles Garnica Introduction: The Unknown Mexican Dirty War Fernando Calderon and Adela Cedillo 1. "Madera 1965: Primeros Vientos" Elizabeth Henson 2. Seizing Hold of Memories in Moments of Danger: Guerrillas and Revolution in Guerrero, Mexico Alexander Avina 3. At the Vanguard of the Revolution: The Revolutionary Action Movement (MAR) and the Armed Struggle Veronica Oikion Solano 4. "Por la reunificacion de los Pueblos Libres de America en su Lucha por el Socialismo": The Chicana/o Movement, the PPUA and and the Dirty War in Mexico in the 1970s Alan Eladio Gomez 5. From Books to Bullets: Youth Radicalism and Urban Guerrillas in Guadalajara Fernando Herrera Calderon 6. A Revolutionary Group Fighting Against a Revolutionary State: The September 23rd Communist League Against the PRI-State (1973-1975) Romain Robinet 7. Armed Struggle Without Revolution: The Organizing Process of the National Liberation Forces (FLN) and the Genesis of Neo-Zapatismo (1969-1983) Adela Cedillo 8. Subjugating the Nation: Woman and the Guerrilla Experience Lucia Rayas 9. Armed Forces and Counterinsurgency: Origins of the Dirty War (1965 - 1982) Jorge Luis Sierra 10. Transcending Violence: A Crisis of Memory and Documentation Elaine Carey Contributors Bibliography