Politics and Democracy in Microstates by Wouter Veenendaal

Author:Wouter Veenendaal [Veenendaal, Wouter]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Democracy, Political Science, General, Political Ideologies
ISBN: 9781317646587
Google: KofZBAAAQBAJ
Goodreads: 28024816
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2014-10-17T00:00:00+00:00

According to several interviewees, the maintenance of democratic practices is a deliberate strategic attempt to appease the United States, and is actually a façade that serves to camouflage a less democratic reality:

Of course yes, there is a façade.… When Maurice Bishop on Grenada affiliated himself with Castro on Cuba, the United States government said “there will not be another Cuba in the Caribbean.” So what happened to Grenada? … Therefore, the need for the façade of democracy is always there.

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