Name some Latin American nations that have recently moved toward democracy.....?

What forces threaten democracy throughout the region?

Name some Latin American nations that have recently moved toward democracy.....?
I guess that depends on what you mean by democracy, and what you mean by recently.





You could say that Nicaragua has moved toward democracy. It was ruled by the Sandinistas (communists) for a while in the 1980s, but has become pretty much a left-leaning capitalist democracy since then. The former Sandinista leader, Daniel Ortega, was democratically elected in November 2006.





So, what forces threaten democracy? Well,think about the power the U.S. exerts in Latin America, about our cheap agriculture (like bananas) and manufacturing (like clothing and furniture) from places like Mexico and Guatemala. Think about how you'd feel about American democracy while your efforts at forming a labor union were squashed by big U.S. companies.





Or you could just say communism and its leaders like Chavez and Castro, which is the standard answer.
Reply:RECENTLY??? Are you kiddin' me? The Bush administration over the past 6 years has made Democracy look like the worst imaginable form of government. Like the Iraqis, Latin American's aren't moving toward it; they're runnin' like hell in the other direction!
Reply:Almost all of them moved from dictatorships to democracies from about 1980 to about 1995. The only exceptions were Cuba (still a dictatorship), Costa Rica, Colombia and Venezuela (those are democracies for a longer time). Mexico wasn't a dictatorship neither a perfect democracy, difficult to explain.





The biggest threat to democracy in the region recently is the rising of far-leftist presidents. But those will probably not install a authoritarian governent. It's possible to say that democracy in the region is well stablished nowadays.

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