You're about 30 years behind the times in your knowledge of Latin America. The "paper democracies" (what a shit term -- the author clearly heard the term "paper

You're about 30 years behind the times in your knowledge of Latin America. The "paper democracies" (what a shit term -- the author clearly heard the term "paper tiger" and tried an alteration that makes no sense) term might have been accurate at the time of the Iran Contra Affair, but that was 1986.