Peril And Promise: The New Democracy in Latin America

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Democracy vs. National Security: Civil-Military Relations in Latin America by Paul W. Zagorski, Lynne Rienner Publishers, 1992, 217 pp., $35.00

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    Over the past decade and a half, more than a dozen Latin American and Caribbean countries have replaced dictator-