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hardcover. Condition: Very Good in Dustjacket. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. New York. 1984. January 1984. Pantheon Books. 1st Edition. Very Good in Dustjacket. 0394522958. Foreword by John Womack Jr. Epilogue by Gunter Grass. 266 pages. hardcover. Jacket illustration by Brad Holland. keywords: Latin America C…entral America History Politics America. DESCRIPTION - From the death squads of El Salvador to counterrevolution in Nicaragua, the daily headlines of crisis in Central America during the 1980s preoccupied both the press and the Reagan administration. However, dangerously few policymakers looked behind the bloody statistics or Reagan's new cold war rhetoric to comprehend the stark realities of power, wealth, and ideology at work in each of the five states of Central America - and to re-examine the implications of our own course of action. The nine incisive essays by leading social scientists in both North and Latin America, with a provocative coda from Gunter Grass, lay bare the true social dimensions and historical roots of the recent unrest. What were the interests vying for power at the top, and who made up the forces mobilizing at ground level to whom the future of these states might belong? Unless we look hard - and soon - for the answers to these questions, we will be bound to a path of destructive crisis management, not diplomacy, as we claim to search for a just and stable solution for Central America. Contributors include - Enrique A. Baloyra, Shelton H. Davis, Martin Diskin, Richard Fagen, Luis Maira, Tommie Sue Montgomery, Lars Schoultz, Edelberto Torres-Rivas, Steven Volk, and John Womack Jr., with an epilogue by Gunter Grass. inventory #2908.
