Latin America changes its guard

Democracy is happily becoming routine

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Ed (Brazil) wrote:
Nov 24th 2010 7:23 GMT

Democracy so new in South America that I think it is still very risky to say it is becoming routine.

First, Venezuela and Bolia which holds regular elections, are ditatorships, as their elections is a joke. Then, take Argentina's Kischener power perpetuation. If Mr Kichner did not die, he would be president again. Then look at other Central and soth Americam govenrments, and the picture is just slightly better. Maybe in Chile and Brazil you have a more routed democracy.

But hey, do you people remeber the US's 2000 elections ? If even the most "democratic" and "free" country in this world messes with its elections, what's to say that it does not happen

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