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TRANSITION TO THE CONSTITUTIONAL REGIMES - Coggle Diagram
TRANSITION TO THE CONSTITUTIONAL REGIMES
CENTRAL AMERICA & THE CARIBBEAN
El Salvador
Insurrectional movements
Nicaragua
Dictator Somoza was overthrown by the Sandinista Front.
Panama
Progressive military dictator Omar Torrijos died in a plane crash
Haiti
The Duvalier dictatorship fell in the mid-80s.
Andean Countries
Colombia
Remained with a constitutional regime but with a strong presence of armed insurrectional organizations.
Bolivia
The dictatorial regimes were defeated and reoccurred.
Venezuela
Enjoyed a period of stability thanks to the boom in oil exports.
Peru
The dictatorship left power and a civil government was established.
Southern Cone
Argentina
The Argentine military government reached a situation of extreme unpopularity, It was defeated in 1982.
Paraguay
The last dictatorship to fall was that of Stroessner in 1989 in Paraguay.
Chile
Pinochet dictatorship convened a plebiscite in 1988, in an attempt to prolong power
Uruguay
In 1980, the dictatorship of Uruguay was defeated.
Directed Democracy
Constitutional governments maintained and even deepened neoliberal measures.
After the military dictatorships, the countries entered the constitutional regime.
"Directed democracies" or "supervised" - Armed Forces maintained influence on the regime
LATIN AMERICA SOLIDARITY
Neglected concerns such as integration.
Greater knowledge among our peoples and a sense of solidarity
DEMOCRACY CONSTRUCTION
Democracy implies not only the validity of a legal regime but effective respect for the rights of individuals and a government that in practice expresses the majority, with a basic participatory element.