> i'm puzzled to say the least. Aren't the 70s and 80s were the bloody decades of dictatorships there? For example: Yes, but they weren't the cause of the dict

> i'm puzzled to say the least. Aren't the 70s and 80s were the bloody decades of dictatorships there? For example: Yes, but they weren't the cause of the dictatorships' collapses. As I pointed they were actually an argument for their hardening. By the time those dictatorships fell the guerrillas were mostly exterminated. Again: my point isn't to deny that repressive regimes repress. It is to point that their collapse wasn't due to a violent reaction but a peaceful one.