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Democracy | Historyworld

HISTORY OF DEMOCRACY

including headings Rival systems, Athenian democracy, The people's army, The mechanics of democracy, Generals and treasurers, ...

Congo, Democratic Republic of | Historyworld

THE DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF CONGO

including headings Congo Free State, Belgian Congo, Independence, Lumumba and Kasavubu, Kasavubu and Tshombe, ...

Democracy | THE CENTRAL AFRICAN REPUBLIC

Kolingba is defeated in the presidential election by Ange-Félix Patassé. (One of Kolingba's last acts before leaving office is to release from prison Bokassa, who astonishingly has returned to the republic...

Democracy | HISTORY OF PARAGUAY

Democracy

In February 1989 Andrés Rodríguez, a senior commander in the army, leads a coup which topples Stroessner. Rodríguez promises to bring democracy to Paraguay. In an election in May 1989 he himself win...

Democracy and anarchy | HISTORY OF SIERRA LEONE

Democracy and anarchy

The new military junta honours the existing plan for imminent elections. They are held in February 1996 and a civilian, Ahmad Kabbah, becomes president. The junta hands power over to him an orderly fashion but a year lat...

Democracy glimpsed and lost | HISTORY OF BURUNDI

Democracy glimpsed and lost

The incumbent president, Pierre Buyoya, is expected to win Burundi's first multiparty presidential election in June 1993, but he is defeated by Melchior Ndadaye, leader of the main opposition party. Ndadaye's party, Frod...

Democracy and the CIA | HISTORY OF GUATEMALA

Democracy and the CIA

The events of 1944 constitute Guatemala's most significant revolution. After the departure of Ubico, a left-wing uprising in October removes an interim government and brings in a revolutionary junta. The result is Guatem...

Democracy restored | HISTORY OF URUGUAY

Democracy restored

The presidential election of 1984 is won by the Colorado Battlista candidate, Julio María Sanguinetti. His accession to power is at this stage still on the sufferance of the generals, and he achieves a return to f...

Jacksonian democracy | HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Jacksonian democracy

The eight years of Andrew Jackson's presidency are a turning point in American political history, introducing what is often described as Jacksonian democracy. They also introduce a new kind of president.

In democr...

Towards democracy | HISTORY OF COTE D'IVOIRE

Towards democracy

The introduction of democracy to the Ivory Coast begins during the final years of Houphouët-Boigny's rule. Opposition parties are authorized for the first time in 1990. Houphouët-Boigny easily defeats an opposi...

Mainly democracy | HISTORY OF VENEZUELA

Mainly democracy

When democracy comes to Venezuela, the leading political party is Acción Democrática. Left-wing but anti-Communist, it is founded in 1941 by Rómulo Betancourt. After the coup of 1945 Betancourt becom...

Delivering democracy | HISTORY OF THE DOMINICAN REPUBLIC

Delivering democracy

Early attempts to establish democracy after the assassination of Trujillo are frustrated by a succession of coups, civil war and even the renewal of American military intervention in 1965 on the supposed fear of a Commun...

Return to democracy | HISTORY OF LATIN AMERICA

Return to democracy

From the mid-1980s nearly all the Latin America republics, discarding their military regimes, contrive an often painful return to democracy (painful because in countries such as Chile the longing for revenge, by the rela...

Return to democracy | HISTORY OF CHILE

Return to democracy

Pinochet's rule is the longest period of unelected dictatorship in the entire history of Chile, which has made more consistent use of the ballot box (albeit at first with a very limited suffrage) than any other Latin Ame...

The struggle for democracy | HISTORY OF HAITI

The struggle for democracy

In the first four years after Duvalier's departure Haiti has five different governments. Four are led by military factions and one is the result of elections, in 1988, which are widely condemned as fraudulent.

In...