If LAC continues to experience democratic backsliding, the United States could face devastating consequences in great power competition with China. Given this importance, and in the wake of recent democratic regression in LAC, democracy and democracy promotion efforts should become strategic imperatives once again -- both for U.S. defense against China and morally for the region itself
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"September 2022."
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