Political Suicide in Latin America

And Other Essays

By: James Dunkerley

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Paperback | 17 February 1992 | Edition Number 1

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Over recent years James Dunkerley has established a reputation as one of the most thoughtful and eloquent writers on Latin America. In his latest book he investigates the high incidence of political suicide in the subcontinent. A sensitive and revealing essay details a number of case studies: the still disputed death of Chilean President Salvador Allende during Pinochet’s storming of the Moneda Palace in 1973; the case of the Salvadorean guerrilla leader Salvador Cayetano Carpio who shot himself in the heart in April 1983; the death of Brazilian President Getulio Vargas, who declared in April 1954 that he would only leave the presidential palace dead&;and a few days later did so; Bolivian President German Busch, who died at his own hand aged thirty-five in 1939; and the dramatic end of Eduardo Chibas, founder of the Cuban People’s Party, who shot himself live on Havana radio in 1951. in the pieces which follow, Dunkerley employs his customary acuity to range over the implications of the Sandinista defeat in Nicaragua, the plight of El Salvador, the modern history of Bolivia, the experience of postwar Guatemala and, in a coruscating broadside, the politics of the Peruvian novelist and the presidential candidate Mario Vargas Llosa.

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From the reviews of James Dunkerley's Power in the Isthmus: "...the most serious and sophisticated history of modern Central America in English and possibly also in Spanish... a truly major work." - Third World Quarterly "...a model of intellectual maturity executed with masterly skill." - Journal of Latin American Studies

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Acknowledgements	p. viii
Preface	p. ix
Political Suicide In Latin America	p. 1
Notes	p. 38
El Salvador, 1930-89	p. 49
Notes	p. 81
Guatemala, 1944-54	p. 83
Notes	p. 110
Reflections on The Nicaraguan Election	p. 115
Notes	p. 137
Mario Vargas Llosa Parables and Deceits	p. 139
Notes	p. 151
Reassessing Caudillismo in Bolivia1825-79	p. 153
Conclusions	p. 167
Political Transition and Economic Stabilization Bolivia, 1982-89	p. 173
Notes	p. 242
Basic Economic Indicators	p. 246
Exchange Rates, 1980-86 (Bs/US$)	p. 247
Monthly Inflation Rate, October 1982-December 1986	p. 248
Tin Production and Exports	p. 249
Real Wages	p. 250
Central Government Revenue	p. 251
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