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From the 1980s through the close of the twentieth century, countries throughout Latin America, from the southern tip of South America to Central America and Mexico, experienced a major wave of democratization. In contrast to the 1970s, when democracies in the region were few and far between, by the end of the century all but one Latin American country, Cuba, was a formal democracy.
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Hite, K. (2005). Breaking the Silence in Post-Authoritarian Chile. In: Partisan Histories. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-137-09150-5_4
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