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Never mind that Brazil has had its "fair" share of dictatorships.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brazilian_military_government

And i really wonder how long the democracy will last if they get too uppity towards US policies...

In the end the Monroe doctrine still seems to be adhered to:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monroe_Doctrine

I think the ability of the US government to influence democracy is largely overestimated. They can't introduce it and they can't exactly stop it, either.

They tried their damnedest to stop it in Iran...

The thing is that there have been US interventions and we tend to assume that it has an effect. But that can't ever be confirmed or ruled out. In Iran's case, who says without US interventions a democracy would have survived the conservative muslim beliefs in the population?

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