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Nearly 100,000 men died during the course of the tragic three-year war between two of the world's poorest nations, Bolivia and Paraguay, in the 1930s. The Chaco War was fought over a worthless stretch of desert scrubland for the pride of political leaders and the ambition of a few military officers.

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This author has spent over a decade working closely with military and political figures throughout Latin America. In this text, he identifies the motives of coup plotters and the way they build a coalition necessary to overthrow a government, as well as analysing how coups succeed and fail.

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The Atacama Desert, a coastal area where the borders of Chile, Peru, and Bolivia meet, was a region of little interest in the late nineteenth century until European research on the use of nitrates in fertilizers and explosives rendered the droppings of millions of sea birds a valuable commodity.

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This book examines the role of the military in the wave of democratization that has swept through Latin America in the past decade.