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The armed forces left presidential palaces amid transitions from dictatorship to democracy. In power, they fared no better than civilians: they engaged in corruption, mismanaged economies, and committed gross human rights violations.īut then, starting in the 1980s and accelerating after the Cold War ended, there was a hopeful moment in Latin America. For most of the region’s history, the military propped up civilian dictators or small elites, or staged coups d’état and held power themselves. They’ve been especially complicated in Latin America. Even where elected civilians have supremacy, civil-military relations are complicated.
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In any democracy, it’s uncomfortable to have the government’s lethal capacity concentrated in one hierarchical, disciplined force-a force that has a very different culture than the civilian government and society. Peru’s Martín Vizcarra on October 1, responding to the Congress’s attempt to unseat him, days after Vizcarra announced the “constitutional” dissolution of the legislature:Įcuadorian President Lenin Moreno in early October, announcing that due to protests in Quito he would be governing from Guayaquil while a state of emergency continued:Ĭhilean President Sebastián Piñera in mid-October announcing, in response to protests, the first state of emergency (other than for natural disasters) since the Pinochet dictatorship. Venezuela’s Nicolás Maduro, after the opposition’s unsuccessful April 30 uprising: Honduras’s Juan Orlando Hernández, announcing the “total deployment” of military and police personnel to respond to June 2019 protests: Thus we have Guatemalan President Jimmy Morales, announcing the closure of the International Commission against Impunity in Guatemala (CICIG) in late August 2018: The subtext is “the military is with me on this”-even if the message is a political one that doesn’t fall within the military’s responsibilities. To give the announcement more weight and menace, the president issues it while surrounded by uniformed military officers. A president-usually one with low approval ratings-announces a politically risky or unpopular move, often a crackdown on social protests or dissent. The past year’s photographic record offers a repeated image in Latin America.