In Latin America, It's Democracy vs. Chaos; The military won't wait forever.

From: The Washington Post | Date: December 27, 1988| Author: | Copyright information

The advent of democracy throughout Latin America has been a great boon to U.S. foreign policy in the 1980s. It is a gift that still may be squandered.

In Argentina, mutineering officers are becoming as common as striking workers, with claims equally pedestrian. An obstreperous colonel, infused with Messianic fervor, issues a Dangerfieldian plea for respect at gunpoint. The outcome: a 20 percent pay hike and a change of management.

In Peru, years of economic confusion have brought the elected government to the brink of collapse. Drug barons and guerrillas are emasculating the Colombian ...

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