Course Pack

Dictatorship & Democracy in Latin America

1. Raymond Crist, “Geography and Caudillismo: A Case Study,” from Hugh Hamill (ed.), Dictatorship in Spanish America (1965).

2. Glen Caudill Dealy, “Two Cultures and Political Behavior in Latin America,” from Roderic Ai Camp, Democracy in Latin America: Patterns and Cycles.

3. Freidrich Katz, “Introduction” Secret War in Mexico (Chicago: University of Chicago,

4. Alain Rouquie, “Modernization by The Army,” in The Military and the State in Latin America (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1982).

5. “The Military and Latin American Politics, 1919-1945,” in The Politics of Antipolitics; 57-60.

6. Walter LaFeber, Inevitable Revolutions

7. Paul Dosal, Doing Business with Dictators: A Political History of United Fruit in Guatemala, 1899-1944 (1997)

8. Lawrence de Besault, “Introduction” and “What Others Think of President Trujillo,” from President Trujillo: His Work and the Dominican Republic (1936)

9. David Rock, “From Oligarchy to Populism,” from Argentina (1985)

10. Robert Levine, “In the Saddle,” from Father of the Poor? (1998)

11. David Rock, “The Apogee of Peron”

12. Robert Levine, “The Estado Novo” and “Populism, Vargas Style”

13. Marifeli Perez-Stable, “Mediated Sovereignty, Monoculture, and Development” and “Politics and Society, 1902-1958,” from The Cuban Revolution: Origins, Course, and Legacy.

14. Thomas Wright, “Fidel Castro’s Road to Power” and “Cuba: The Making of a Revolution,” from Latin America in the Era of the Cuban Revolution

15. Reinaldo Arenas, Old Rosa

16. Susanne Jonas, The Battle for Guatemala: Rebels, Death Squads, and U.S. Power, (chapters 2-

17. Norman Bailey, “The United States as Caudillo,” and Chester Lloyd Jones, “If I Were a Dictator,”

18. Alain Rouquie “The Sixth Side of the Pentagon?”

19. “Multinationals, Development and Democracy?” Multinational Monitor interview with Henry Geyelin in Draper (ed.), Democracy and Dictatorship in Latin America (1981)

20. Albert Smith, “Transferring the Tools of Counterinsurgency,” U.S. Department of Defense, “A School of the Americas Study Manual”

21. Lois Hecht Oppenheim Thomas Wright, “Chile Under Allende: A Peaceful Road to Socialism?” from Latin America in the Era of the Cuban Revolution

22. Lois Hecht Oppenheim, chapters 4-7 from Politics in Chile (1999)

23. Collier & Slater, “The Chilean Road to Socialism, 1970-1973” and “The Pinochet Years,” from A History of Chile, 1808-1994 (1996)

24. “A Lexicon of Terror,” from Marguerite Feitlowitz, A Lexicon of Terror (1998)

25. “The Military Speaks for Itself,” in Politics of Antipolitics

26. David Rock, “Peron and After” and Authoritarians, Populiss, and Revolutionaries,” from Authoritarian Argentina: The Nationalist Movement, Its History and Its Impact (1993).

27. Fernando H. Cardoso, "On the Characterization of Authoritarian Regimes," and David Collier, “Overview of the Bureaucratic Authoritarian Model,´ in David Collier, Ed. The New Authoritarianism in Latin America (1979).

28. Nunca Mas: The Report of the Argentine National Commission on the Disappeared (1986).

29. Gerardo Munk, chapters 4-6 from Authoritarianism and Democratization: Soldiers and Workers in Argentina, 1976-1983 (1998).

30. Manuel Barrera & J. Samuel Valenzuela, “The Development of Labor Movement Opposition to the Military Regime,” in J. Valenzuela & Valenzuela (eds.), Military Rule in Chile: Dictatorship and Oppositions (1986)

31. Manuel Antonio Garreton M., “Popular Mobilization and the Military Regime in Chile,” in Eckstein (ed.), Power and Popular Protest (1989)

32. Bruce Farcau, “The Breakdown of Authoritarian Regimes” in The Transition to Democracy in Latin America (1996)