To shoot or not to shoot? How did nonviolent movements avoid hard repression during the presidential breakdown of 2000 in Ecuador?*
María Belén Garrido // Since the beginning of the third wave of democratization in Latin America (1978), 15 Latin American presidents have not completed their term for various reasons such as impeachment, overthrow, or resignation. Most of the overthrows that took place in Latin America were accompanied by street protests and nonviolent mobilizations that demanded…