Dictatorship in South America.

Cover -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Figures -- Table -- Series Editor's Preface -- Preface and Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- What's in a Number? -- Disappeared -- How to Read This Book -- 1: Dependency, Development, and Liberation: Latin America in the Cold War -- The Cold War in Latin America -- Notes -- 2: Brazil: What Road to Development? -- A Military Mindset: Edmundo Macedo Soares -- Development and Democracy -- "The 1964 Revolution is irreversible and will consolidate democracy in Brazil!" -- The Hard Line: Costa e Silva and Médici (1967-74) -- Opposition by Other Means -- Repression -- Fighting for the Revolution -- The Economic Miracle, 1968-73 -- Conclusion -- Notes -- 3: Argentina: Between Peronism and Military Rule -- Enthralled by Peronism -- The Failure of De-Peronization, 1955-73 -- Argentine Left and Perón's Return, 1969-74 -- The Spiral of Violence -- Preparing the Return of Military Rule: Argentina in 1976 -- Notes -- 4: Chile: From Pluralistic Socialism to Authoritarian Free Market -- Chile under Allende -- The September 11 Coup -- A Laboratory for Free-market Reforms -- The Chicago Boys and Che Guevara -- The "Quiet Revolution" -- Rapid Growth and Economic Crisis, 1978-82 -- Notes -- 5: Argentina: The Terrorist State -- A Dirty War with Clean Hands? The Human Rights Struggle -- Reorganization: A Victory in the World Cup -- Reorganization: A Failure in the Economy -- Reorganizing the Reorganization -- The Falkland Islands (Islas Malvinas) War -- Coda -- Notes -- 6: Brazil: The Long Road Back -- Brazil and the Third World: An Emerging Power? -- Two Deaths and the Rebirth of Opposition -- The Transition Accelerates -- The Debt Crisis Defines the Shape of Re-Democratization -- An Incomplete Transition -- Notes -- 7: Chile: A "Protected Democracy"?.

The Letelier Assassination and Mounting Pressure against Pinochet -- The 1980 Constitution -- Opposing Pinochet -- The 1982 Economic Crisis Shapes Democratization -- Unseating Pinochet and Defining a Path to Democracy -- The NO -- Justice Done but a Long Road Ahead -- Notes -- Conclusion -- Sources -- Human Rights -- United States-Latin America Relations -- International and Comparative -- Argentina -- Spanish language sources -- Brazil -- Portuguese language sources -- Chile -- Spanish language sources -- Index.

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