Completar frases 236-testVersión en línea 236-test por Farhad Key 1 are compelled disillusionment warfare expressed array imperial sought mechanisms domination intervention reprisal cone overthrow In the southern especially , from Venezuela to Argentina , the region is rising to the legacy of external domination of the past centuries and the cruel and destructive social forms that they have helped to establish . The of control ? violence and economic , hardly a distant memory in Latin America ? are losing their effectiveness , a sign of the shift toward independence . Washington is now to tolerate governments that in the past would have drawn or . Throughout the region a vibrant of popular movements provide the basis for a meaningful democracy . The indigenous populations , as if in a rediscovery of their pre - Columbian legacy , are much more active and influential , particularly in Bolivia and Ecuador . These developments in part the result of a phenomenon that has been observed for some years in Latin America : As the elected governments become more formally democratic , citizens an increasing with democratic institutions . They have to construct democratic systems based on popular participation rather than elite and foreign .