Dictating Democracy: Guatemala and the End of Violent Revolution.(Review) (book review)

American Political Science Review, March, 2001 by Torres-Rivas, Edelberto

Dictating Democracy: Guatemala and the End of Violent Revolution. By Rachel M. McCleary. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 1999. 297p. $49.95.

Bibliography dealing with the armed conflict in Central America, aptly called crisis literature, was abundant until the latter part of the 1990s, although North American academicians paid little attention to Guatemala. Now two books have been published, both with titles that refer to the same phenomenon. The peace process that concerns Susanne Jonas corresponds to the termination of the violent revolution in Rachel McCleary's work.

McCleary's explanation for the end of the violent conflict rests on the role played by the elite principals of Guatemalan society, the business sector and the military. The...

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