Despite being home to some of the world's most vibrant and active democracies, the hemisphere has also experienced by most metrics the sharpest decline in its democratic institutions of any region in the 21st century.
On the recordSeptember 6, 2023
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Kaine highlights the decline of democracy in the Western Hemisphere.
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