Includes index. Spanish collection.

Declining dictators, rising revolutions -- A fractured history -- Roads to revolution -- Human rights and Nicaraguan wrongs -- To mediate or not to mediate: the policy question -- Transitions -- Marching to different drummers -- The reluctant arbiter -- Denouement -- Carter: mutual respect and suspicion -- Carter: mutual temptaitons -- Reagan: Mutual resentment -- Reagan: mutual obsessions -- Nightmares come true: an explanation -- Turning points -- A different road.