Democracy in Latin America: Visions and Realities Horror Book Review

This important new volume collects articles that evaluate different models of democracy, challenging the realities and myths of the practice of democracy in various countries throughout the region. This is a provocative and revealing study of the critical issues in the struggle for democracy and current events in the Third World and the United States. Through the writings of leading Latin American and U.S. scholars, including James Petras, Pablo Gonzalez Casanova, and Max Azicri, the book addresses such important topics as whether Washington’s “model democracies” are truly democratic, and how Guatemala’s civilian regime compares to Nicaragua’s revolutionary democracy.