These are the episodes of democratization I am interested in: Dominican Republic (1978), Bolivia (1979), Ecuador (1979), Peru (1980), Bolivia (1982), Honduras (1982), Argentina (1983), Nicaragua (1984), El Salvador (1984), Brazil (1985), Uruguay (1985), Guatemala (1986), Mexico (1988), Paraguay (1989), Chile (1990), Panama (1990), Haiti (1995), Peru (1995), Haiti (2006) and Honduras (2010).
An these are the breakdowns: Costa Rica (1948), Panama (1948), Peru (1948), Venezuela (1948), Colombia (1949), Argentina (1951), Cuba (1952), Guatemala (1954), Argentina (1962), Peru (1962), Ecuador (1963), Honduras (1963), Bolivia (1964), Brazil (1964), Argentina (1966), Panama (1968), Peru (1968), Ecuador (1970), Honduras (1972), Chile (1973), Uruguay (1973) and Argentina (1976).
For Bolivia's transition 1979 there is the chapter from Laurence Whitehead on the "Transitions from Authoritharian Rule" books:
Whitehead, Laurence. 1986. “Bolivia’s Failed Democratization, 1977-1980.” In Transitions from Authoritarian Rule: Latin America, edited by Guillermo O’Donnell, Philippe C. Schmitter, and Laurence Whitehead, 49–71. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press.
On Bolivia's breakdown 1964, there's something towards the end of James Malloy's book on the 1952 revolution:
Malloy, James M. 1970. Bolivia: The Uncompleted Revolution. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press.
Thank you Clayton! What would you recommend for Brazil? I am interetsed (mostly) in detailed descriptions of the US involvement in the abertura (say, in particular critical junctures from 1974 to 1988, but perhaps more particularly during the Figueiredo years)
Unfortunately, I don't know any such account for Brazil right now... But I have a friend who is now working at the University of Brasília and who worked in his PhD thesis with a comparative study of Brazilian and Mexican foreign policies as related to conformity/non-confomity to United States' preferences. Although not directly related to the issue of democratic transition/breakdown, he might have come across references on the issue during his research. His name is Fidel Pérez Flores, you can get his contact at https://irel.unb.br/professores/
For Chile at least, you might find a lot in Spanish in the history catalog of LOM http://www.lom.cl/g/959026eb-744c-4397-a044-30fb7be13c35/Historia.aspx . An ethnographic account of the struggle for the transition in English is Cathy Schneider's Shantytown Protest in Pinochet's Chile. About the early post-Pinochet period, see Julia Paley's ethnography Marketing Democracy. For that period, see also Kenneth Robert's Deepening Democracy? The Modern Left and Social Movements in Chile and Peru. Good luck
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