Tensions and Trade-Offs in Latin America

Issue Date April 1997
Volume 8
Issue 2
Page Numbers 114-28
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About the Author

Michael Shifter is president of the Inter-American Dialogue in Washington, D.C., and adjunct professor of Latin American studies at Georgetown University. He is the editor (with Jorge I. Domínguez) of Constructing Democratic Governance in Latin America (3rd edition, 2008).

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