DAVID W. DENT is Professor emeritus of political science at Towsen University. He the author of Encyclopedia of Modern Mexico (2002), The Legacy of the Monroe Doctrine: A Reference Guide to U.S. Involvement in Latin America and the Caribbean (Greenwood, 1999), the co-author of Historical Dictionary of Inter-American Organizations (1998), and the editor of U.S.-Latin American Policymaking: A Reference Handbook (1995) and Handbook of Political Science Research on Latin America: Trends from the 1960s to the 1990s (1990). Dent is the author of over 100 articles, essays, and chapters on Latin Ameri...