Download or read book Rank and Privilege written by Linda Alexander Rodríguez and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 1994 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The power of the military in Latin America has become well known in recent decades, as coups have brought numerous military regimes into office since 1960. Yet too often it is assumed, for example, that the region's armed forces have had no legitimate defence functions, or that military professionalism is only a recent development.