AMLO’s threat to Latin American Democracy

The Estrada Doctrine did not have much influence over the years outside Mexico, but that might be changing. The risk we run now is the growth of a transnational notion that no election, no matter how clean, can necessarily be trusted. When he becomes president, Joe Biden will have to join with regional partners to counter that anti-democratic trend. One important lesson of the 1930s is that democracies can fall remarkably quickly when political elites stop valuing elections.By Greg Weeks. Full Text -> TheGlobalAmericans

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