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
____________________
.
