Over the past generation, Latin Americans have celebrated the onset or in some cases the return of democracy. The end of military rule in the region is a sea of change in a continent where juntas and dictators were the norm. Yet while Latin Americans have much to celebrate -- and notwithstanding some current challenges to democracy in quasi-authoritarian regimes such as Hugo Chavez's in Venezuela -- a more fundamental problem now afflicts the region: pervasive violence.
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