In the Name of Democracy: U.S. Policy Toward Latin America in the Reagan Years

by Thomas Carother and Thomas Carothers

Book Overview

This is the first comprehensive, even-handed examination of U.S. policy in Latin America during the Reagan era. Drawing on interviews with United States officials and his own perspective as a former State Department lawyer, Carothers sheds new light on the much-discussed U.S. involvements in Nicaragua, El Salvador, and Panama, and turns up varied and often unexpected findings in less-studied countries such as Bolivia, Costa Rica, Paraguay, and Chile...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0520073193
• ISBN13: 9780520073197
• Release Date: July 1991
• Publisher: University of California Press
• Length: 309 Pages
• Weight: 1.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.3" x 9.3"