“The Path of Dictatorship”: The Erosion of Democracy and Capitalism in Late Nineteenth-Century Mexico and Colombia

The first erosion of democracy in Latin America did not occur in the twentieth-century, but, rather, the nineteenth. I will argue that in Mexico and Colombia a vibrant, democratic political culture had emerged by the 1850s; however, by the 1870s, a political movement that united Liberals and Conserv...

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Main Author: James E. Sanders
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Universidad de los Andes 2020-10-01
Series:Revista de Estudios Sociales
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Online Access:https://revistas.uniandes.edu.co/doi/full/10.7440/res74.2020.03

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