LATIN AMERICA:  The Ups And Downs of Democracy
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BUENOS AIRES, Sep 29 (IPS) - A private research study released in the Argentine  capital on Friday reports that in Latin America, governments of  different political tendencies are resorting ever more frequently  to a new form of populism that is undermining the growth of  democracy in the region.
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Comment is free: Timothy Garton Ash: From Poland to Italy, democracies struggle to create mass parties that will last longer than a speed-dating session.
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MERIDA, Mexico  - A tour of Latin America has provided President George W. Bush little respite from a drumbeat of bad news back in Washington, which experts say adds up to the second-term blues.
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The former Chilean dictator's death provides a ghostly coda to a year in which the leftist political forces he worked so violently to defeat have swept back into power across Latin America
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QUITO, Ecuador, Nov. 25 -- No matter who wins Ecuador's presidential election on Sunday, many outside the country will view it as a decision between dueling political stereotypes: Venezuelan President Hugo ChÃÂ¡vez's dream of a unified region liberated from U.S. influence, or that of free-market...
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At the United Nations lectern this week, President Bush hailed the spread of democracy. "From Beirut to Baghdad," he said, "people are making the choice for freedom." Yet even as he spoke, tanks were rolling through the streets of Bangkok as a military coup toppled the elected leader of Thailand,...
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The United States, accustomed to giving advice on democracy, is in the unfamiliar position of getting some from international election observers schooled in Tajikistan, Ethiopia and other emerging democracies.
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Conservative Felipe Calderon&#039;s apparent victory could signal that the leftist tide sweeping Latin America has reached its high-water mark, as voters frightened by the radicalism of Venezuela&#039;s Hugo Chavez seek refuge in more mainstream ideas across the region.
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Description: Secretary of State Colin Powell tried to mend fences with Latin America&#39;s biggest country at a time when Brazilian popular opinion is adamantly hostile to the United States on issues of trade and foreign policy.
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Bush is about to embark on a grand tour of Latin America, hoping to finally score the sort of foreign-policy victory that's eluded him elsewhere. No matter what he offers, however, it's likely too little, too late.
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Monday was a memorable day. The system was thrown into confusion. At the Social Democrat Party (PSD), the bitter pill of losing the presidency caused gloomy visions.
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Emerging economic expansion in Latin America fuels continued growth.
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Their president's approval ratings are at historic lows. The war in Iraq is grinding down their political prospects, and their party is showing deep divisions on issues such as education and immigration.
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Latin America is finally owning up to its "dirty wars" &#151; the nightmarish campaigns of state-sponsored violence in which hundreds of thousands died or "disappeared." But the death of Chile's Gen. Augusto Pinochet shows the continent's leftist leaders of today must act fast to expose the truth while the masterminds of this savagery are still alive.
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MADRID, Jun 14 (IPS) - On the eve of the 30th anniversary of Spain's  first free elections after the end of the dictatorship of  Francisco Franco (1939-1975), they remain an outstanding example  that transitions from de facto regimes to democracy can be  peaceful and orderly.
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The fractious outcome of a vote on autonomy for Bolivia&#039;s states and the government&#039;s apparent failure to win enough backing to rewrite the constitution could dampened the leftist agenda of President Evo Morales.
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The victory for his leftist coalition brought two-party rule in Uruguay to an end for the first time in 170 years. Venezuela&#39;s left-wing President Hugo Chavez said Mr Vazquez&#39;s election heralded a step towards the shaping of a new South America.