Revolutionary Movements in Latin America: El Salvador's FMLN & Peru's Shining Path

by Cynthia McClintock

Book Overview

A study of why El Salvador's FMLN and Peru's Shining Path revolutionary movements were able to mount such serious challenges in the 1980s and early 1990s, particularly when their governments were... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1878379763
• ISBN13: 9781878379764
• Release Date: June 1998
• Publisher: United States Institute of Peace Press
• Length: 492 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.0" x 8.9"

Customer Reviews

A Great Book by a Great Teacher

I had the privilege of reading Prof McClintock's book BEFORE I realized she was a professor at my school, and I am really glad to have had access to both. The book was really indepth, and Cynthia was able to get awesome interviews that very few other people have ever gotten.

Excellent research and analysis.

This is one of the finer books I have read on insurgent organizations and their backgrounds/motivations. Cynthia McClintock concentrates on comparing and contrasting these two groups, along with addressing similar groups, to give the reader a deeper understanding of an insurgency. The FMLN is now part of the political process, as they wished to be (as brought out in the book), in El Salvador. However, Sendero Luminoso is still trying to overthrow the Peruvian government without wishing to be a part of the process (also brought out in the book). This book, to include its tremendous bibliography, is an excellent reference resource.