01453nab a22002417a 4500001000700000003001100007005001700018006001900035008004100054040003900095100001900134082002100153245006700174300005500241520075600296650002901052651001901081700002001100773004901120942000901169945001601178999001701194048284CL-SaANEPE20211029000631.0a||||| |||| 00| 0 120703n2011    xx ||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d  aCL-SaANEPEcCL-SaANEPEdCL-SaANEPE1 aWiarda, Howard  aUS.SDSR/1-2/201110aConstitutional coups? military interventions in Latin America.  aVol. 12, nro. 1-2 (fall - winter 2011), p. 189-198  aAmerican are so committed to elections and democracy as the only legitimate path to political power that it is sometimes hard to conceive of politics by other means. Moreover U.S. policy-makers tend to believe that elections occupy a higher realm of moral authority, and hope that, with democracy-assistance programs. Latin America and other developing areas will move beyond revolutions, coup d`états, general strikes, and other non-electoral routes to power. But as the silvert quote bellow indicates, non-electoral paths may still be pursued especially in crisis circumstances; furthermore, these extra-electoral means may enjoy both legitimacy and constitutional mandate. In this article we test these propositions as they apply in Latin America 4aINTERVENCIONES MILITARES 4aAMERICA LATINA1 aCollins, Hilary0 tSecurity and Defense Studies Review.w020811  cREVA  aOSS20120703  c48028d48028