The Interamerican Democratic Charter turned 21 years old and still has as its mission the ending of dictatorships
On 11 September of 2001, the countries of the Americas instituted at Lima-Peru the “foundational treaty” that consecrated “the right of Americas’ countries to have democracy and their governments to promote and defend it” and that “democracy is essential for the nations’ social, political, and economic development”. It is the Interamerican Democratic Charter that having…