It may surprise you (or not) that most countries we consider democracies, like India or the United States, are actually deemed flawed democracies. For full democracies, you’d have to look rather to Canada, Japan, or European countries like Spain and the United Kingdom.

Very little of the world’s population lives in a full democracy today, and Latin America is no exception. Citizens of the region’s largest country, Brazil, live in a flawed democracy marked by widespread polarization and corruption.