Guerrilla Auditors is an ethnographic account of the rise of information, transparency, and good governance in the post Cold War era, and the effects of these concepts on Paraguay s transition to democracy. Kregg Hetherington shows that the ideal of transparent information, meant to depoliticize bureaucratic procedures, has become a battleground for a new kind of politics centered on legal interpretation and the manipulation of official documents. In late-twentieth-century Paraguay, peasant land politics moved unexpectedly from the roads and fields into the documentary recesses of...

Guerrilla Auditors is an ethnographic account of the rise of information, transparency, and good governance in the post Cold War era, and the effects of these concepts on Paraguay s transition to democracy. Kregg Hetherington shows that the ideal of transparent information, meant to depoliticize bureaucratic procedures, has become a battleground for a new kind of politics centered on legal interpretation and the manipulation of official documents. In late-twentieth-century Paraguay, peasant land politics moved unexpectedly from the roads and fields into the documentary recesses of...