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Latin America: February 2004

Liberalism Takes Root in Central America

By: Forrest D. Colburn

Description: "Central America's unlikely route to liberal democracy may not have been perceived as leading to durable regimes. However, democracy has been resilient and even stable in Central America. Indeed, Central Americans, accustomed to being perceived as poor and unstable by their Mexican and South American brethren, have been smug about the locus of Latin Americaís ills being shifted to South America."

Volume: 103
Issue: 670
Page: 74

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