The Chilean Political Process (Thematic Studies in Latin America Series) (English and Spanish Edition)

Politics & Social Sciences

Garretón, Manuel Antonio

Politics & Government

Westview Pr

The Chilean Political Process (Thematic Studies in Latin America)

History

Americas

Routledge

The Chilean Political Process

Despite the emergence of fragile democracies in Latin America in the 1980s, a legacy of fear and repression haunts this region. This provocative volume chronicles the effect of systematic state terror on the social fabric in Chile, Argentina, Brazil, and Uruguay from the 1960s to the mid-1980s. The contributors, primarily Latin American scholars, examine the deep sense of insecurity and the complex social psychology of people who live in authoritarian regimes. There is Argentina, where the brutal repression of the 1976 coup almost completely smothered individuals who might once have opposed government practices, and Uruguay, where the government forced the population into neutrality and isolation and cast a silent pall on everyday life. Accounts of repression and resistance in Chile and Brazil are also vividly presented. The denial and rationalization by citizens in all four countries can only be understood in the context of the generalized fear and confusion created by the violent military campaigns, which included abductions, torture, and disappearances of alleged terrorists. The recent transition to civilian rule in these countries has spotlighted their powerful legacy of fear. These important essays reveal disturbing insights into how fear is generated, legitimized, accommodated, and resisted among people living under totalitarian rule.

Fear at the Edge: State Terror and Resistance in Latin America

Corradi, Juan E.

Fagen, Patricia Weiss

University of California Press

Incomplete Democracy: Political Democratization in Chile and Latin America (Latin America in Translation/En Traduccion/Em Traducao)

Essays by one of Latin America's leading sociologists explore contemporary challenges to democratization in Latin America, analyzing in particular Chile's return to democracy following the 1973 coup that overthrew president Salvador Allende. Originally published in Spanish in 1995 and now updated.

Incomplete Democracy: Political Democratization in Chile and Latin America (Latin America in Translation/en Traducción/em Tradução)

The University of North Carolina Press

Westview Press

The myriad changes affecting contemporary Latin America in the context of a globalizing world are so far reaching, argue the authors of Latin America in the Twenty-First Century, that understanding them requires both new conceptual tools and multidisciplinary analysis. In response to this need, they explore developments in the region in terms of four central, distinct processes: the construction of political democracies, social democratization, the reinserting of Latin American economies in the world system, and the creation of a new model of modernity that encompasses both globalization and cultural identities. The authors construct a sociopolitical matrix to help explain Latin America's political, economic, social, and cultural changes in the context of a globalizing world.

Latin America in the Twenty-First Century: Toward a New Sociopolitical Matrix

Univ of Miami North South Center pr

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