This paper explores how state agents and civilians justify human rights violations when the military perform police tasks. Based on a set of interviews and documents, it analyses the actions of the armed forces and the police during a military‐led operation that targeted drug trafficking organisations in Tijuana. In a context of limited civilian control over the armed forces and the police, the paper identifies two discourses that supported the illegal action of state agents: the construction of a foreign other who does not belong to society and the need to use violence to accomplish a greater good.

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违反法律确保秩序：蒂华纳案（2007–2012）

本文探讨了当军方执行警察任务时，国家特工和平民如何为侵犯人权辩护。根据一系列采访和文件，它分析了针对蒂华纳毒品贩运组织的军事行动中武装部队和警察的行动。在平民对武装部队和警察的控制有限的情况下，本文确定了两种支持国家特工非法行为的话语：建设不属于社会的外国其他人，以及利用暴力来完成一项不法行为的必要性。更大的好处。