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Could a process of gradual reform and development, a la Europe, have turned the "old" Latin American countries (those not colonized under liberal Bourbon rule) into North American (or rather, Costa Rican) style relatively equal liberal democracies, or was the criollo oligarchy too self-sustaining to be extirpated except through a violent social revolution, in the style of Morelos and Hidalgo? I think, given the Costa Rican example, that a gradual transformation is possible, though difficult.
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