... civilian democracy to military-backed authoritarian rule focuses on the 1960s and 1970s, when the urban guerrilla movement of the Tupamaros made violence a part of daily life through killings, kidnappings, and robberies, and engendered increasing military intervention. Until the 1970s, Uruguay enjoyed...

... the Brazilian armed forces had overthrown the empire and seized control of the government, a leading civilian and Paulista assumed the presidency. His coming to power ended a period of military incidents and uprisings and initiated one of freedom from overt military interference which would extend far...

...Alan K. Manchester Civilian-Military Relations in Brazil, 1889-1898 . By Hahner June E. . Columbia , 1969 . University of South Carolina Press . Notes. Bibliography. Index . Pp. xiii , 232 . $7.95 . Copyright 1970 by Duke University Press 1970 On November 15, 1889...

...Roscoe R. Hill Federal Records of World War II . Vol. I, Civilian Agencies; Vol. II, Military Agencies . The National Archives . [ Publications Nos. 51-7 and 51-8 .] ( Washington : Government Printing Office , 1951 . Pp. xii , 1073 , 1061 . Index. Paper . $2.50 per volume...

...Bryan Pitts Abstract In 1978, as striking metalworkers, students, and a revitalized political opposition challenged the Brazilian military regime from without, a stunning rebellion by the regime’s civilian allies in São Paulo undermined it from within. Dealing the regime a shocking political defeat...

... in Paraguay, the victory celebrations also stressed the theme of peacetime demobilization and the return of the troops to their civilian roles and identities. Such demobilization would reduce or eliminate the potential political role of the veterans, drawn overwhelmingly from the country’s working-class...

...James N. Green Abstract Several thousand students joined small clusters of soldiers, workers, and others in revolutionary opposition to the Brazilian civilian-military dictatorship that came to power in 1964 and controlled the government for two decades. Operating underground, these left-wing...

... work with skill, imagination, and daring. He also has the clarity of vision to trust his own analysis of the past sufficiently to offer a hard-headed guess about the future: The reason I make a fuss about this point is that Johnson, as I have said, uses civilian inefficacy to explain military...

... of the failures of the civil sector to stand united in defense of constitutional government than . . . of military lust for power” (p. 381). Undeniably, the incompatibility of civilian movements was a primary inducement to military intervention. Yet, the relationship is a dynamic one that builds up a momentum...

... question, one of the most neglected topics in scholarship on the first half of the twentieth century in Mexico is the relationship between the armed forces and civilian political leadership. It is a crucial theme central to the evolution and success of the authoritarian Mexican model, setting the country...

... are common to all Latin American armies, but several are unique to Mexico: “that an army of civilian origin defeated an established army, and that both Mexico’s political and military leadership after 1920 were products of a shared revolutionary experience” (p. 7); and that the Mexican Revolution brought...

...: “the difficulties encountered by the highly professional army in Brazil, with its technocratic civilian allies, illustrate that there can be no apolitical solution to the problems of political development” (p. 265). It appears that in the long run military intervention has served to complicate rather than simplify...

..., Navarro highlights how the military threatened the stability and consolidation of civilian government until the early 1950s. Even then, a key point in getting the military to desist from seeking to govern was that it was deliberately delegated the less public, yet very powerful, domains of intelligence...

... and economic policies imposed by Pinochet. The articles demonstrate how the Chilean labor force was twice victimized: first by Pinochet and the military and then by the series of center-left civilian governments that workers had supported. Political violence ushered in an extreme form of neoliberalism...

... as an educational experience, la misión civilizadora , military-civilian socioeconomic cooperation, and the tying of national development to internal security are all attributable to the French presence. In November 1946, just as the United States was supposedly gaining influence in Peruvian military affairs...

... allows him to reveal the military side of the profession’s relations with the rest of society, its place in modern Argentine history. The present volume carries the saga of Argentine military-civilian relations from the ouster of Arturo Frondizi in 1962 up to the point when the aging Juan Perón...

...Warren Dean The author draws important conclusions from this inglorious raw material. The rebels were agonized by the clear inability of civilian politicians to carry out the spirit of the Constitution of 1891. Contradictorily charged by that Constitution with its defense, as well as the defense...

... roles, disrespect for civilians, and elements of old national security doctrines persist in the region as well (chaps. 4, 5). Fitch distinguishes between regimes with military tutelage and those with conditional military subordination to civilian rule, and categorizes similar cases into clusters. He...

... The origins of military conservatism and radicalism, the socioeconomic and political impacts of various types of military and civilian regimes, and the subordination of the military to civilian authority form the core themes of this work. The focus is primarily on post–World War II developments...

... questions emerge. In the first place, Blanco Muñoz questions whether the conspiratorial movement that Chávez formed in 1982 was “civilian-military,” as he claims, or whether civilian commitment was at best “superficial” (p. 336). Chávez denies the versión of the current governor of the state of Zulia...