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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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