
Jorge Castañeda on the Challenges Facing Latin America’s Young Democracies

Do democracies offer progress or only the promise of progress? NYU professor and former foreign minister of Mexico Jorge Castañeda breaks down some of the challenges currently facing the western hemisphere’s youngest democracies, those of Latin America. From Mexico to Peru and Brazil, a centrist vacuum in the region is contributing to everything from copycat insurrection to populist violence.
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