Latin American Democracy Evolution

The democratic evolution in Latin America is captivating when learning its struggle to strengthen democracy. Latin America was beginning to implement democracy in all its regions and now it is struggling to ensure democratic rule stays, when it should be discovering ways to further reinforce the system. To first understand what is occurring, it is essential to comprehend the history that brought democracy to Latin America. The most widespread wave of democratization that Latin America has experienced in its history first occurred at the end of the Cold War. About two decades later, concerns about corruption, low levels of participation in election, and institutional designs weakened the democratic system Latin America started to build by promoting …show more content…
As a result, the regions experienced the introduction of numerous economic reforms commonly known as neoliberal, which created populism. By the mid-1990's new patterns of populist leadership formed that coincided with neoliberal economic reforms in nations like Peru, Argentina, Brazil, and Ecuador. Neoliberalism is described as an economic ideology spreading throughout the world via international financial institutions and transnational corporate hegemony. The effects of this colonial phenomenon are especially acute in Latin America where many nations faced debt crises directly related to the international economic system . Neoliberalism allows the control the fiscal deficit, tax reform, and exchange rates. Several, Latin American governments implemented some of these measures, which significantly gained popular support. As a result, the neoliberal economic reforms of the nineties created two types of response in the region: the populist and the non-populist, Populism can have ideological orientations and pursue diverse economic and social policies. Kurt Weyland, a well known …show more content…
This allows scholars to interpret the core aspects and facilitate a comparative analysis between different ideologies. In this paper, I will describe populism as a method of exerting state power through a set of liberal ideas, and focus on democracy’s institutional framework instead of its effect on social justice. To do this, first we have to study the quality of democracy in Latin America since 1980’s and compare it to today, explore the potential variables that threaten democracy, and come up with a strategy to combat these variables. It is essential to study this because Latin America will not function if countries diminish democratic