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Re:Notes on El Salvador by coldtea on Saturday March 30, 2024 @11:09PM (#39881016)
The practical experience of 20th century Latin America countries, and their history, both regarding domestic politics and dynamics and external influence and meddling?
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Re:Notes on El Salvador by jrflowers on Saturday March 30, 2024 @11:20PM (#39881087)
This makes sense. Latin America is incompatible with democracy and the reason for that is history; such a conclusion is so obvious it is a surprise that anyone would support the idea of democracy anywhere in the continent
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Re:Notes on El Salvador by bluish29 on Saturday March 30, 2024 @11:41PM (#39881194)
> Latin America is incompatible with democracy and the reason for that is history

I understand that all these events are historical so it is history after all. But the main factor of failing democracies in latin America in the last century was the external pressure and meddling from a particular superpower. There are too many examples of this [1]. I am really surprised you said that.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_involvement_in...

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