>1) Rise of democracy in Latin America in the 70s and 80s (Argentina, Uruguay, Paraguay, Chile, Brazil) i'm puzzled to say the least. Aren't the 70s and 80s we

>1) Rise of democracy in Latin America in the 70s and 80s (Argentina, Uruguay, Paraguay, Chile, Brazil) i'm puzzled to say the least. Aren't the 70s and 80s were the bloody decades of dictatorships there? For example: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dirty_War https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dirty_War "The Dirty War (Spanish: Guerra sucia) is the name used by the military junta or civic-military dictatorship of Argentina (Spanish: dictadura cívico-militar de Argentina) for the period of United States-backed state terrorism[1][2][3] in Argentina[4][5] from 1976 to 1983 as a part of Operation Condor, during which military and security forces and right-wing death squads in the form of the Argentine Anticommunist Alliance (AAA, or Triple A)[6] hunted down any political dissidents and anyone believed to be associated with socialism, left-wing Peronism or the Montoneros movement.[7][8][9][10] Up to 30,000 people disappeared, of whom many were impossible to report formally due to the nature of state terrorism."