DEMOCRATIC RESILIENCE IN LATIN AMERICA: ANALYZING CRISES AND OVERCOMINGAbstract
During the last two decades, several Latin American countries have experienced tensions between democratic ideals that have put their regimes to the test. Despite the challenges, most Latin American democracies have been able to react in different ways to these crises, leading to institutional solutions as examples of resilience. The objective of this article is to analyze the risks and resilience of Latin American democracies in their recent years. The analysis allowed for the organization into three groups: the first, composed of countries that have gone through situations of resilience, such as Bolivia, Brazil Chile, Ecuador, Peru and Guatemala. The second group is composed of countries with current or latent risks that raise some kind of concerns about democracy, such as El Salvador, Mexico, and Argentina. Finally, the two countries with clear signs of rupture, Nicaragua and Venezuela, are analyzed. This classification allows for the different dynamics at play in contemporary democracies and the specific challenges they face.
Keywords:
democracy; Latin America; resilience; crisis