Resurgent Democracy in Latin America-Rhetoric and Reality

Rhetoric and Reality Edward S Herman James Petras The Reagan administration's policy is operating on four tracks in Latin America.
In Central America where there is a mobilised population pressing for democracy and structural change, Washington has opted for the 'terror-with-demonstration elections' formula, attempting to destroy the social movements and then promote (and publicise) elections among local loyalists that will ratify the status quo.