Recent scholarship has found that Mexico's dirty war was rooted in existing, but also limited, violent practices established during the 1940s and 1950s. During the 1960s, these limits began to disappear. But it was not until the early 1970s when the state had sufficient capacity to launch counterinsurgency tactics throughout the nation. However, contrary to traditional appreciations of Mexico's dirty war, these tactics were not exclusively used on urban and rural insurgents. They were soon employed by soldiers, secret agents and state cops often in alliance with local landowners and their pistoleros. They focused these violent practices on land invaders, groups aiming at indigenous autonomy, drug traffickers and drug producers. La tibieza ya se acabó, esto es una guerra a muerte (The softly‐softly approach is over, this is a war to the death) Durazo Moreno, April 1977.

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墨西哥的肮脏战争：重新评估

最近的学术研究发现，墨西哥的肮脏战争根源于 20 世纪 40 年代和 1950 年代现有的、但也是有限的暴力行为。20 世纪 60 年代，这些限制开始消失。但直到 20 世纪 70 年代初，国家才有足够的能力在全国范围内发动反叛乱策略。然而，与对墨西哥肮脏战争的传统认识相反，这些策略并不仅仅用于对付城市和农村的叛乱分子。他们很快就被士兵、特工和州警察雇用，通常与当地地主及其手枪结盟。他们将这些暴力行为集中在土地侵略者、旨在实现土著自治的团体、贩毒者和毒品生产者身上。La tibieza ya se acabó, esto es una guerra a muerte（轻柔地接近结束了，这是一场生死之战）Durazo Moreno，1977 年 4 月。