Mixed Signals"Nowhere did two understandings of U. S. identityhuman rights and anticommunismcome more in conflict with each other than they did in Latin America. To refocus U. S. policy on human rights and democracy required a rethinking of U. S. policy as a whole. It required policy makers to choose between policies designed to defeat communism at any cost and those that remain within the bounds of the rule of law."from the Introduction Kathryn Sikkink believes