... influence of violence and corruption from the Guerrilla movement, Paramilitary groups, and drug trafficking lords. In addition, Colombia's political system has been different from other Latin American countries in the sense that it has a long history of partidist politics, usually fair and regular elections, and the respect for political and civil rights. Colombia has had two traditional predominant parties--the Liberals ... which the government was losing control over the country's rampaging violence. It was perceived that even if the Guerrillas laid down their arms, violence by narcot...

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... of legitimacy on totalitarian regimes (provided that the population is genuinely supportive of them) simply cannot be right to a Western mind. However, it is quite difficult to conjure up a normative sense of legitimacy that regimes can be judged by, and therefore one in which authoritarian regimes can be easily demonized. Whichever way the situation is examined, it is always examined through ... a respected fellow human and also a set of laws that have been worked out through the ages, be this in statute by the deliberation of legislators or societal norms designated in common law. How...

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... the majority of the people'29. This view is echoed in the writing of Matsuo Takayoshi, who states that liberal ideas were 'limited to the middle class in Tokyo; the common people in general had no political consciousness and tamely followed the government's policy of expansion on the Asiatic continent.'30 Indeed, Japanese social values of obedience to authority and respect ... the Prince Regent's life in 1923 appeared as confirmation to many conservatives within government of that which they greatly feared: subversive elements were plotting to unravel the Kotukai, Japan's collecti...

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