Salvaging El Salvador

Issue Date April 1992
Volume 3
Issue 2
Page Numbers 70-80
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About the Author

Enrique A. Baloyra is professor of political science at the University of Miami and former director of the Institute of Latin American Studies at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. He is the coauthor of Political Behavior in Venezuela (with John Martz, 1976) and the author of El Salvador in Transition (1982).

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