"In Latin America, specialists and polling organisations have,……" — Noam Chomsky
"In Latin America, specialists and polling organisations have, for some time, observed that the extension of formal democracy was accompanied by an increasing disillusionment about democracy and a lack of faith in democratic institutions."
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588 Quotes by Noam Chomsky
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