1. MID-TERM STUDY GUIDE
PS 134AA/Spring 2004

2. DISCUSSION ITEMS Carapintadas Alliance for Progress Salvador Allende
César Gaviria
SMDs
Delegative democracy
Vlademiro Montesinos
Plan Colombia

3. SAMPLE ESSAY QUESTIONS
Compare three broad phases of political change in Latin America during the course of the twentieth century.
Does professionalization of the military tend to keep the armed forces out of politics—or push them into politics? Why?
How did the foreign policy of the United States affect Latin American democracy during the Cold War?

4. ESSAYS (cont.)
Compare Peru under Fujimori with Venezuela under Chávez.
Describe Colombia’s “crisis of governability.”
What does Agüero’s analysis of Chile suggest about the viability of “pacted transitions”?