The Challenges of Democracy in Latin America

3/28/2005; 59 minutes

Carlos Mateo Balmelli, President of the National Senate in Paraguay, explores how Latin American countries can establish democracy in societies recovering from authoritarian regimes with Paraguay itself experiencing the region's longest dictatorship under Alfredo Stroessner who ruled for 35 years until 1989.
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