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To: epicure who wrote (137837)	6/24/2004 5:47:02 PM
From: FaultLine	Read Replies (2) of 281500

Hello X the Unknown, I'm glad you posted this. I read it in my NYT early this morning and thought, "Uh oh." --fl Latin America Is Growing Impatient With Democracy ...Analysts say that the main source of the discontent is corruption and the widespread feeling that elected governments have done little or nothing to help the 220 million people in the region who still live in poverty, about 43 percent of the population. "Latin America is paying the price for centuries of inequality and injustice, and the United States really doesn't have a clue about what is happening in the region," said Riordan Roett, director of Latin American studies at Johns Hopkins University. "These are very, very fragile regimes," he added. "Increasingly, there's frustration and resentment. The rate of voting is going down. Blank ballots are increasing. The average Latin American would prefer a very strong government that produces a physical security and economic security, and no government has been able to do that."

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