1. The post-transitional source was part of an address by Carl Gershman, president of the National Endowment for Democracy, delivered at the International Congress of the Latin American Studies Association, 23–25 Oct. 1986, Boston. The second comment is taken from Paul Goepfert, “Democratic Opening,” The Progressive, no. 49 (Nov. 1985):36–39.

2. To be fair, Barry does not claim theoretical sophistication, but he does present material from a critical perspective that reflects “dependency theory.” Both works are flawed by minor errors. For example, Barry's bibliography mistakenly attributes Jim Handy's Gift of the Devil to Sheldon Annis, although the title appears elsewhere under Handy. Calvert misidentifies a photograph of the volcano Agua near Antigua Guatemala as Fuego.

3. See Guatemala, edited by Susanne Jonas and David Tobis (New York: NACLA, 1974); and Susanne Jonas, “Guatemala: Land of Eternal Repression,” in Latin America: The Politics of Dependency, edited by James Chilcote and Joel Edelstein (Cambridge, Mass.: Schenkman, 1974).