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q237hq40b04	Laura Gamboa Gutiérrez	Opposition at the Margins: The Erosion of Democracy in Latin America	1904		.txt	text/plain	322	14	40	Using comparative historical analysis focusing on the cases of Alvaro Uribe (Colombia) and Hugo Chávez (Venezuela), I show that when the opposition uses extra-institutional strategies with radical goals, it provides the president with legitimate reasons to remove opposition leaders from office, prosecute, and jail them, allowing him to push for more aggressive reforms that –without presence congress or the courts—the opposition cannot stop. Some of these presidents have eroded democracy.	cache/q237hq40b04.txt	txt/q237hq40b04.txt