This book provides a paradigm of the coup and provides a
historical basis for that paradigm that is unsurpassed in its
objectivity and research. The author of this book has spent over a
decade living and working with military and political figures
throughout Latin America. His book is both an educational and an
exciting peek into the dark world of military subversion by an
observer who has seen it first hand.
The coup d'etat has defied all attempts at rational analysis.
This is hardly surprising, in that it is born in darkness and very
frequently dies there, only coming to light in the last moments
before either a bloody defeat or a stunning success. The
participants on the military side are frequently reluctant to
discuss their activities, even long after the fact, and their
civilian victims can usually only guess at what happened to them.
Previous studies have often been heavily tainted by the politics of
the writer, categorizing the coup as a product of class struggle,
the cold war, or outright foreign intervention by the
superpowers.
The author of this book has spent over a decade living and
working closely with military and political figures throughout
Latin America and has used the fruits of literally hundreds of
encounters (ranging from simple interviews to longtime friendships)
to piece together an insightful picture of this nebulous but very
real phenomenon. He has identified the motives of coup plotters and
the means by which they go about building the coalition necessary
to overthrow a government. Rather than use hypothetical cases to
illustrate his points, he has drawn on history to demonstrate how
coups succeed and why they fail. This book is both an educational
and an exciting peek into the dark world of military subversion by
an observer who has seen it first hand.
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