Or maybe it's just my agenda-pushing newspaper because they do not like who the people are electing.
MEXICO CITY — Democracy has taken root in Latin America, but remains fragile three decades since a number of coup-imposed military regimes were replaced by freely elected governments, a United Nations report warned yesterday.
Actually, there have been a few that went the other way lately (Haiti and Honduras?), but what does that matter? I don't recall the U.N. Security Council taking any action on the matter.
Was there even any criticism at all?
It says drug violence, weak states with corrupt police and inefficient courts, and wealth concentrated in few hands threaten representative government across the region.
Stop singling out AmeriKa, will ya?
“There is a problem in the quality of our democracies,’’ said UN Assistant Secretary General Heraldo Muñoz, director of the United Nations Development Program’s regional bureau for Latin America, who helped oversee the report.
“We need to strengthen institutions and the rule of law’’ so even those in power are held to account, Muñoz said. “We need to stimulate a culture of democracy that goes beyond free elections.’’
Violence by highly organized drug gangs in Mexico and Central America and a recent rebellion by police officers in Ecuador show that many of the region’s states remain weak, Muñoz said in a telephone interview Monday from UN headquarters.
Related: Ecuador Ejects CIA Coup Attempt
Been raising hell in the region since 1947.
“The state should be responsive to the citizenry and not feel vulnerable to minority groups that wield too much power,’’ he said.
Amen!
Despite free elections and widespread limits on presidential reelection, most countries still have strong presidents and lack the independent courts and legislatures necessary to check executive power.
Stop piling on AmeriKa, will ya?
In Venezuela, Hugo Chávez, a democratically elected president, has effectively stacked the courts and Congress in his favor, and changed the constitution to be reelected in perpetuity.
Oh, him again.
Yeah, how dare he do what a government should for its people!
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