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Podcast: New Thinking for a New World - a Tallberg Foundation Podcast
Episode: Worth Repeating: Does Democracy Have a Future in Latin America?
Description: From Mexico to Argentina there has been an accelerating erosion of representative democracy.
By any measure, Latin American democracy is in trouble. From Mexico to Argentina—and most of the countries in between—there has been an accelerating erosion of both the forms and realities of representative democracy. Is the witches’ brew of the pandemic, underperforming economies, weak rule of law, and structural inequalities more than democracy can bear? Will things get worse before they get better?
Eduardo Amadeo, Argentine economist and politician; Sergio Guzman, Colombian political risk analyst and commentator; Patricio Navia, Chilean political scientist and academ...