The Bolivarian Presidents - Conversations and Correspondence with Presidents of Bolivia, Peru, Ecuador, Colombia, and Venezuela

Alexander is among the most experienced observers of Latin American politics and has been an active correspondent with major figures of the region for decades. In this volume, he provides interview transcripts and letters from most of the recent presidents of Bolivia, Peru, Ecuador, Colombia, and Venezuela. With some of the correspondence and interviews extending over a considerable period of time, the shifting views and attitudes as well as the comments on other key players makes for fascinating insights into the politics of Latin America.

This volume is a continuation of Alexander's earlier The ABC Presidents (Praeger, 1992). This material is of considerable importance to political scientists and other Latin American Studies researchers.

List of contents

Preface
Bolivia
Victor Paz Estenssoro
Hernán Siles
René Barrientos
Luis Adolfo Siles
Walter Guevara Arce
Lidia Gueiler
Jaime Paz Zamora
Peru
Fernando Belaúnde Terry
Ecuador
Galo Plaza
Osvaldo Hurtado
Rodrigo Borja
Colombia
Eduardo Santos
Alberto Lleras Camargo
Alfonso López Michelson
Venezuela
Rómulo Gallegos
Carlos Delgado Chalbaud
Raúl Leoni
Rafael Caldera
Carlos Andrés Pérez
Luis Herrera Campins
Jaime Lusinchi
Index

About the author

ROBERT J. ALEXANDER is Professor Emeritus of Economics and Political Science, Rutgers University. He was a member of John F. Kennedy's Task Force on Latin America where the Alliance for Progress was developed, and he is a former consultant to the American Federation of Labor and the AFL-CIO on Latin American and Caribbean organized labor. One of the country's most respected scholars of Latin American politics and economic affairs, Professor Alexander is the author or editor of forty-five earlier books, most of them focusing on Latin America and the Caribbean, including The Bolivian National Revolution, the first English-language study of that upheaval, and the history of labor and radical movements.

Product details

• Authors: Robert Jackson Alexander, Alexander Robert J.
• Publisher: Bloomsbury
• Languages: English
• Age Recommendation: ages 7 to 17
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 25.05.1994
• EAN: 9780275946616
• ISBN: 978-0-275-94661-6
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Peru, Venezuela, Biography: general, Colombia, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Process / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Affairs & Administration, POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / Caribbean & Latin American, Ecuador, Political structure & processes, Bolivia, Biography: philosophy and social sciences, Central / national / federal government, Political structure and processes, Central government, Politics, Law, and Government: Comparative Politics