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
- 5 Attempts at party renewal: from above and below
- 6 Party and military strategies in the “dialogue”: from partial opening to confrontation after the Parque Hotel talks
- 7 From mobilization to negotiation: the exhaustion of alternatives
- 8 The Naval Club pact: party and military strategies in the transition
- PART III POLITICAL PARTIES AND DEMOCRATIC CONSOLIDATION
- Conclusion: Parties and regime change – some lessons and comparisons
- Appendix
- Bibliography
- Index
- CAMBRIDGE LATIN AMERICAN STUDIES
8 - The Naval Club pact: party and military strategies in the transition
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
- 5 Attempts at party renewal: from above and below
- 6 Party and military strategies in the “dialogue”: from partial opening to confrontation after the Parque Hotel talks
- 7 From mobilization to negotiation: the exhaustion of alternatives
- 8 The Naval Club pact: party and military strategies in the transition
- PART III POLITICAL PARTIES AND DEMOCRATIC CONSOLIDATION
- Conclusion: Parties and regime change – some lessons and comparisons
- Appendix
- Bibliography
- Index
- CAMBRIDGE LATIN AMERICAN STUDIES
Summary
[I]n our country a cold war seems to have blocked the dialogue that leads to reinstitutionalization, threatening to turn into a hot war at any moment. One has the impression that in the most recent times the republic has been split in two. On one flank the government and armed forces, on the other political leaders and the expectant Uruguayan people, the only real objective of the good that must be reached, and which is the responsibility of all.
Let us abandon that exhausting vicious circle. Neither differences of opinion, nor the prerogatives of power, nor messianic fanaticisms, nor yet the idea that everything that comes from the government is detestable and inadmissible, can be grounds or sufficient handicap for not obtaining the target we have set. It is impossible to reach unanimity of thought, but it is also inconceivable not to reach a minimum honorable agreement which takes us all to the goal we desire.
Lieutenant General Manuel Buadas, 16 March 1984By the southern fall of 1984 the political stalemate between the military and the opposition parties was coming to an end. Despite Wilson Ferreira's imprisonment, the Colorados and Broad Front were ready to renew talks with the armed forces. The options of regime continuity and complete breakdown had been eliminated as far as the Colorados, the Left, and the commanders in chief were concerned.
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- Negotiating DemocracyPoliticians and Generals in Uruguay, pp. 160 - 192Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 1991