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After 40 years of uneven experience, democracy is facing acute challenges in Latin America. Over the past two decades, two of the region’s countries—Venezuela and Nicaragua—have completed the transition from being representative democracies to fully-fledged dictatorships, while a few others are barely worthy of the democratic label. Democracy in Brazil recently won a narrow victory. We’ll take a timely look at the state of democracy and the threat of autocracy in Latin America.