How did Latin America escape from political unrest?

Question

How did Latin America escape from political unrest?

Answer 1

We have not escape from political problems. We are far from being politically stable.

Answer 2

One would presume that the asker of a political question would at least have some modicum of knowledge of current events.  It goes with the territory for curiosity in this arena.  However, your question defies this conventional assumption.

Latin American political unrest is cyclical, swinging from leftist to fascist.  Currently the tide is in the leftist direction, led by Hugo Chavez of Venezuela and his minions in Bolivia, Ecuador, Nicaragua and to a lesser extent Argentina and Brazil.  Far from truly embracing socialism for its popular benefits, these leaders utilize it as a front for their own personal aggrandizement, couching their lies in hyperbolic nationalism to appeal to the masses.  

Fascist governments had their latest hurrah with Pinochet in Chile, Fujimori in Peru and in the early 80's in Argentina (time of the so-called "dirty war" of political disappearances).  Argentina's polemic leader Juan Peron himself felt allied enough to the n**i party to shelter war criminals following WWII.  

Popular resistance to  these forms of government eventually reaches a breaking point, leading to the ever-so-common coup, or golpe de estado, as they are called in Spanish.  This, coupled with brief collective memory and poor education leads to the cyclical nature of the unrest as the next government either repeats the misdeeds of its predecessor or swings 180-degrees away, and always to excess.

One hopes with modernization of the economies, which for the most part remain resource-based (and thus themselves subject to the viscissitudes of economic cycles) and lack the diversity and resilience of the developed world's economies, stability will eventually prevail.  However, corruption at all levels has become so indelibly engrained as to make this seem a remote dream.  As a consequence the majority of Latin Americans have accepted a degree of fatalism, and accord their leaders more tolerance of impropriety than would be accepted elsewhere.  

So on and on it goes.

Now go read some newspapers already.

Answer 3

It hasnt. Leftist Govts in Bolivia, Ecuador and Venezuela. Killing of politicos is common in many countries.

Answer 4

It hasnt, nearly all Latin American countries are in the midst of upheavals....there is war in Columbia, nearly so in Venezuela, Chile and Peru....