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Free elections have not taken place in South Korea since 1971 when Kim was defeated in the presidential election. The reigning military dictatorship of President Chun Doo Hwan has threatened to either imprison Kim or place him under house arrest upon return...
...fear of a wave of leftist takeovers in Central America, it's important to underscore that Mexico faces the same problems which launched authoritarianism in other relatively advanced Latin American nations. With the rest of the region enjoying a democratic renaissance, Washington should be concerned about a potential dictatorship next door--and respond with something more constructive than crude intervention or sheer indifference...
There seems to be a pattern. The pattern is primarily economic, but there are military motivations as well. Just like in 1984, the whole point is the preservation of the status quo. We prop up the Philipino dictatorship because if the country was subject to majority rule, they would almost certainly deprive us of our military base there...
Uruguay thus became the latest country in Latin America to replace dictatorship with democracy over the past few years. Others include Argentina, Bolivia, Ecuador, El Salvador, Honduras, Panama and Peru. Brazil and Guatemala might join the democratic club next year. In Washington, where Sanguinetti is viewed as a moderate who favors close ties with the U.S., a State Department spokesman praised "the manner in which the elections were conducted...
...mining of the harbor, the CIA manual and the contra funding hurt American prestige and are ineffectual, as liberals claim. The point they miss is that all of these efforts, like Walter F. Mondale's proposed quarantine, are aimed at destroying a government that overthrew a U.S.-sponsored dictatorship which repressed its poverty stricken citizens...