e reader gets the feeling that the authors dare not tell the hard and dark truth about the possibility of democracy in the nations under study. Editor Susanne Jonas does not hesitate to boldly tell the truth about the United States as she sees it: "American foreign policy is racist . . . and truly imperial" (6). Why don't we find the same bold and fearless conclusions with respect to politics in Latin America?
For example, in the essay on Haiti, we read of a number of pro-democratic features of the post-Duvalier government, including the following:
the recognition of the intimate relation between democracy and sovereignty, which brings governments arising out of these processes to take a stance of disobedience toward the imperial center of financial and political power (192).
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