Paraguay: The coup that didn't happen

Journal of Democracy

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 1997, Pages

  Valenzuela, Arturo ^a  

^a GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 16744368814     PISSN: 10455736     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1353/jod.1997.0014     Document Type: Article

References (7)

1. For a discussion of democracy as a fundamental value of the inter-American system, see Domingo E. Acevedo and Claudio Grossman, "The Organization of American States and the Protection of Democracy," in Tom Farer, ed., Beyond Sovereignty: Collectively Defending Democracy in the Americas (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1996), 132-49. See also Heraldo Muñoz, "The OAS and Democratic Governance," Journal of Democracy 4 (July 1993): 29-38.
2. For a discussion of democracy as a fundamental value of the inter-American system, see Domingo E. Acevedo and Claudio Grossman, "The Organization of American States and the Protection of Democracy," in Tom Farer, ed., Beyond Sovereignty: Collectively Defending Democracy in the Americas (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1996), 132-49. See also Heraldo Muñoz, "The OAS and Democratic Governance," Journal of Democracy 4 (July 1993): 29-38.
3. For a discussion of Resolution 1080 and a review of its application, see Peter Hakim, "The OAS: Putting Principles into Practice," Journal of Democracy 4 (July 1993): 39-49.
4. For general accounts of Paraguay stressing the role of the armed forces, see Paul Sondrol, "The Paraguayan Military in Transition and the Evolution of Civil Military Relations," in Armed Forces and Society 19 (Fall 1992): 105-22, and Riordan Roett, "Paraguay After Stroessner," Foreign Affairs 68 (Spring 1989): 124-42.
5. For general accounts of Paraguay stressing the role of the armed forces, see Paul Sondrol, "The Paraguayan Military in Transition and the Evolution of Civil Military Relations," in Armed Forces and Society 19 (Fall 1992): 105-22, and Riordan Roett, "Paraguay After Stroessner," Foreign Affairs 68 (Spring 1989): 124-42.
6. The following description of events in Paraguay is drawn from press accounts published in the United States and Paraguay as well as conversations I had with most of the principals described in this article. A valuable - if occasionally misleading - chronology of events based on extensive interviews is José María Costa and Oscar Ayala Bogarín, Operación Gedeón: Los secretos de un golpe frustrado (Asunción, Paraguay: Editorial Don Bosco, 1996).
7. For a different view, see Richard Feinberg, "The Coup That Wasn't," Washington Post, 30 April 1996.