Consider the situation in Bolivia. When now-resigned President Evo Morales was re-elected in late October this year, the Organisation of American States (OAS) - which receives the majority of its funding from the US, and which claims to want to strengthen democracy in member states – sought to delegitimise his rule. Allegations of electoral fraud then forced Morales to cede power to Jeanine Añez, a decidedly anti-indigenous interim president ruling over a country with a 65% indigenous population.
US attempts to undermine democracy are nothing new
None of this is particularly new, however. The US, supposed bulwark of democracy, has had fingers in Latin American pies for a while now. Many elections have been considered undemocratic, followed by the sudden appearance of a new leader with surprisingly American interests.
In other words, the recent erosion of democracy isn’t a new trend. Global forces of imperialism and capitalism have always attempted to undermine the wishes of the many in favour of the desires of the elite. Unless there is some radical change in the current global hegemony, the next ten years will see only further decline in true democracy.
