Are Crime and Corruption Undermining Young Democracies in Latin America? Deutsche Welle
go to original September 16, 2015

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The demonstrator's voice distorts as he screams: "Where should he go?" The answer that the crowd shouts back to him is clear: "Away, get rid of him!"

The same scene plays out every Friday in the Central American country of Honduras. Thousands of angry citizens march through the streets demanding the resignation of President Juan Orlando Hernandez.

Demonstrators want the same fate for their leader as that of his colleague in neighboring Guatemala. On September 3, following an investigation by the International Commission against Impunity in Guatemala (CICIG), President Otto Perez Molina was forced to step-down from office on

Mass demonstrations in Guatemala and Honduras, opposition protest marches in Venezuela, teachers' strikes in Mexico, peasant farmers' revolts in Colombia, disappointed students in Chile, rage against Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff: all of Latin America seems to want to run their governments out of office.

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Related: Andres Oppenheimer: Latin America’s New Era of Disenchantment (Miami Herald)

Related: Jorge G. Castañeda: Saving Central America (Project Syndicate)

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