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Staff at the Amazonas Regional Electoral Court test electronic voting machines in Manaus, Brazil, in July.

The High-Stakes Threats to Latin American Democracy

Latin America’s impressive progress on electoral democracy, perhaps its most important achievement of recent decades, could soon be rolled back.

NEW AQ: Is Latin America’s Millennial Generation More Authoritarian—or Democratic?

Millennials account for about a quarter of the population, and are rising into positions of power. A special report explores how they may change politics forever.

Why Reelection Would Embolden Bolsonaro Even More

Recent history shows that authoritarian-leaning leaders become much more aggressive after winning reelection.

Deal with the Left’s Resurgence

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The landscape of Latin America has shifted in both political and economic terms in the last ten years. The Left, with its “one thousand faces,” has reappeared in a distorted and pernicious manner, without providing any solutions to the biggest problems in the region such as poverty, drug trafficking, contraband, and corruption, among others. In many of our countries, we have to start over again. The challenge awaiting the new president of the United States in developing new policies for the region will not be easy.