Title: The Politics of Antipolitics: The Military in Latin America


Author: Brian Loveman and Tomas M. Davies, Jr.
Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
Place: Lincoln, NE, USA
Year: 1989
Language: english

CONTENTS

1. Military Rule and the Latin American Tradition
The Politics of Antipolitics

2. Antecedents of Military Antipolitics
Instability, Violence, and the Age of Caudillos

-The Latin America Nations State and the Creation of Professional Military Establishments
-An Overview of the European Military Missions in Latin America
Frederick M. Nunn

-The Rise of Modern Militarism in Argentina
Marvin Goldwert

-The Influence of the German Armed Forces and War Industry on Argentina, 1880-1914
Warren Schiff

-Selected Documents on Military Professionalization in Bolivia

-Origins of the "New Professionalism" of the Brazilian Military
Frank D. McCann, Jr.

-Emil Körner and the Prussianization of the Chilean Army
Frederick M. Nunn

-Military Professionalization in Peru
Victor Villanueva

-The Army and Politics in El Salvador, 1840-1927
Robert V. Elam

3. The Military and Latin American Politics, 1919-45
Modernization, Instability, and Military Leadership, 1919-45

-The Military and Argentine Politics
Robert A. Potash

-An Overview of the Bolivian Military in National Politics to 1952
William H. Brill

-The Military and Brazilian Politics to World War II
Ronald M. Schneider

-The Military in Chilean Politics, 1924-32
Frederick M. Nunn

-The Military in Peruvian Politics, 1919-45
Victor Villanueva

-The Military and Politics in el Salvador, 1927-45
Robert V. Elam

-The Guatemalan Military and the Revolution of 1944
Kenneth J. Grieb

4. The United States and Latin American Military Politics
The United States and Military Politics in Latin America

-Guerrilla Warfare in Underdeveloped Areas
W.W. Rostow

-Post-Vietnam Counterinsurgency Doctrine
Colonel John D. Waghelstein, U.S. Army

-United States Caribbean Policy and Regional Militarization
Jorge Rodríguez Beruff

5. The Military Speaks for Itself
Military Spokesmen for Military Rule

Argentina

-Speech by President Juan Carlos Onganía
-The Armed Forces' Decision to Assume the Direction of the State
-A Time for Fundamental Reorganization of the Nation
Speech by General Jorge Rafael Videla
Speech by General Leopoldo Fortunato Galtieri
-Final Document of the Military Junta Regarding the War Against Subversion and Terrorism

Bolivia

-Justification of the Revolution of November
Speech by General Alfredo Ovando Candía
-The Path of Duty
Speech by General Hugo Banzer Suárez
-Toward the Constitutionalization of Bolivia
Speech by General Hugo Banzer Suárez
-National Reconstruction: A Mission of the Armed Forces
Speech by General Luis García Meza Tejada

Brazil

-Speech by Humberto Castello Branco
-Speech by President Ernesto Geisel before the Brazilian Cabinet
-Speech by Ernesto Geisel to Military Comrades
-Speech by President João Figueiredo to the Brazilian Nation on the Sixteenth Anniversary of the Revolution

Chile

-The Reasons of the Junta
Speech by Augusto Pinochet Ugarte
-Chile Should Not Fall Into the Vices of the Past
Speech by General Augusto Pinochet

Peru

-Manifesto of the Revolutionary Government of Peru
Speech by Juan Velasco Alvarado
Speech by Francisco Morales Bermúdez
Speech by General Francisco Morales Bermúdez Cerruti on the 158th Anniversary of National Independence

El Salvador

-Proclamation of the Armed Forces to the Salvadoran People
Speech by Colonel Arturo Armando Molina on the Occasion of the Day of the Salvadoran Soldier
Speech by General Carlos Humberto Romero
-Proclamation of the Armed Forces of the Republic of El Salvador

Guatemala

-Speech by Colonel Enrique Peralta Azurdia to the People of Guatemala
-Speech by Carlos Manuel Arana Osorio
-Speech by General José Efraín Ríos Montt
-Speech by General Oscar Humberto Mejía Victores

6. The Consequences of Military Rule
Policies and Consequences of Military Rule in Latin America

-Military Politics in Argentina, 1966-73
David Rock

-The Military in Politics in Argentina, 1973-83
David Rock

-Military Government and State Terrorism in Argentina
Juan E. Corradi

-Military Rule in Bolivia after 1964
-The Military and bolivian Politics, 1971-83
James Dunkerley

-The Post-1964 Military Republic in Brazil
Riordan Roett

-The Transition to Democracy in Brazil
Scott Mainwaring

-Antipolitics in Chile, 1973-87
Brian Loveman

-Antipolitics in Peru, 1968-80
Stephen M. Gorman

-Oligarchs and Officers: The Crisis in El Salvador
William M. LeoGrande and Carla Anne Robbins

-Military Rule in Guatemala
George Black