DEMOCRACY IN LATIN AMERICA is in trouble. That is the message of this year's survey of opinion in 18 countries by Latinobarometro, a pollster based in Santiago, Chile. The proportion of people who are dissatisfied with how democracy works has jumped from 51% in 2009 to 71%. The share that is content has dropped from 44% to 24%, its lowest level since the survey began more than two decades ago (see chart 1 and chart 2 on next page).
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