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2012.
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| Summary/Abstract |
When Canada became a Member of the Organization of American States
(OAS) in 1990, most of Latin America was at a crossroad in a post-cold
war transition from authoritarian regimes to democracies. The Canadian
government played a fundamental role in the creation and development of
the organization's unit for the promotion of democracy, as well as of other
similar initiatives, in this period. This mark of leadership would have an
important impact on the organization later on, including regarding the
adoption of the 2001 Inter-American Democratic Charter, which attests to the importance of human rights for democracy and vice-versa. In fact, the
promotion of democratic processes and the consolidation of democratic
institutions, as well as the promotion and protection of human rights, are
certainly among the OAS's most signi?cant successes in the institution's
recent history.1
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