Coffee and Power: Revolution and the Rise of Democracy in Central America

by Jeffery M. Paige

Book Overview

In the revolutionary decade between 1979 and 1992, it would have been difficult to find three political systems as different as death-squad-dominated El Salvador, peaceful social-democratic Costa Rica, and revolutionary Sandinista Nicaragua. Yet when the fighting was finally ended by a peace plan initiated by Costa Rica's President Oscar Arias, all three had found a common destination in democracy and free markets. To explain this extraordinary...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674136497
• ISBN13: 9780674136496
• Release Date: January 1998
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Length: 448 Pages
• Weight: 1.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.1" x 9.2"