Exporting Democracy

The United States and Latin America

By: Abraham F. Lowenthal

Political Science

the idea that the united states can and should help latin america achieve democracy has been a recurrent theme in u.s. foreign policy throughout the twentieth century. by the 1990s, it had become virtually unchallenged doctrine, broadly supported on a bipartisan basis. yet no systematic and comparative study of u.s. attempts to promote latin american democracy has ever been published — and the...