Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Foreword by Juan Linz
- Acknowledgments
- 1 Introduction: Political parties, theories of regime change, and the Uruguayan case
- PART I THE CRISIS AND SURVIVAL OF URUGUAYAN POLITICAL PARTIES
- PART II FROM AUTHORITARIAN CRISIS TO TRANSITION
- PART III POLITICAL PARTIES AND DEMOCRATIC CONSOLIDATION
- 9 The competition for support: leadership strategies and electoral behavior before and after the 1984 elections
- 10 The legacies of authoritarianism and the challenges for democracy
- Conclusion: Parties and regime change – some lessons and comparisons
- Appendix
- Bibliography
- Index
- CAMBRIDGE LATIN AMERICAN STUDIES
10 - The legacies of authoritarianism and the challenges for democracy
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 11 September 2009
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Foreword by Juan Linz
- Acknowledgments
- 1 Introduction: Political parties, theories of regime change, and the Uruguayan case
- PART I THE CRISIS AND SURVIVAL OF URUGUAYAN POLITICAL PARTIES
- PART II FROM AUTHORITARIAN CRISIS TO TRANSITION
- PART III POLITICAL PARTIES AND DEMOCRATIC CONSOLIDATION
- 9 The competition for support: leadership strategies and electoral behavior before and after the 1984 elections
- 10 The legacies of authoritarianism and the challenges for democracy
- Conclusion: Parties and regime change – some lessons and comparisons
- Appendix
- Bibliography
- Index
- CAMBRIDGE LATIN AMERICAN STUDIES
Summary
The main danger is that Uruguay is going straight back to 1970. The Left has not changed at all. PIT, ASCEEP, the Rural Federation and Chamber of Industries are all doing exactly the same things as before. Wilson and the Front are the same. … The Colorado party is the only party to have really changed in abandoning Pachequismo.
A young Colorado, 12 July 1984Whoever wins, there will be a huge political crisis between president and Parliament. Demagogy will be massive in order to defeat the government and win the 1989 election. Institutional breakdown will result. The president may dissolve Parliament. Subversion would return – not just terrorism but coordinated leftism, including demonstrations, strikes, and bomb attacks. Sooner or later there will be another coup.
An air-force colonel, November 1984Sanguinetti is a very intelligent, enormously able and cultured statesman. And definitely a conservative. He will have a major place in Uruguayan history, I am sure of that. I have great respect for Wilson Ferreira, but Sanguinetti has a more global view.
A Broad Front candidate, 17 April 1985Though Sanguinetti soon did show himself to be a capable, cultured, and tough president, the challenges he faced were huge: most urgently, the military refusal to countenance any trials of those accused of human-rights violations and the continuing economic crisis. The Colorado administration presented a typically Uruguayan reaction to problems that other Latin American nations often have attempted to fight by more dramatic efforts.
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- Negotiating DemocracyPoliticians and Generals in Uruguay, pp. 217 - 238Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 1991