It is NOT true that... A) Latin American peoples had very little experience in democracy or self-government.
For example, during the 1980s, Latin America experienced the longest and deepest wave of democratization in its history. The origins of this process of transformation are to be found in the interaction between domestic and international forces.
The persistence of the democratization trend through time reflects the importance of other factors , including the global political change, the recedig threat of the revolutionary left , the internationalization of capital markets , political learning , which have converged at the domestic level to reduce the incentives and opportunities for authoritarian reversals.
