Still Colombian leaders struggled over the years to maintain a democratic regime despite the need to strengthen the ability of the state to exercise control over its territory.
CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: The FTA with Colombia: the political dimension
Is she aware of the fact that my home country of France, just a short century ago, and under a democratic regime, outlawed religious schools and vowed religious orders to replace them with a system of secular public education explicitly designed to undermine the influence of Catholic Church?
Mr Bashir's regime has no democratic legitimacy, and has doubts about the loyalty of its armed forces.
It emerged in the inter-war years as a split from republican liberalism, and while it became a traditional social democratic party after the fall of the Colonels regime in 1974, its forms of organisation, and mass base among civil servants and small business people, lead some to compare it to Argentine "Peronism" - that is left nationalism with a working class base.
Even Spain only became a democratic state after the Monarchy was restored after the Franco regime.
Unlike many countries in Latin America, in the seventies, that used the excuse of guerilla activity to abolish democratic institutions, Colombia has been able to maintain a parliamentary and constitutional regime.
CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: The FTA with Colombia: the political dimension
And so the steps we have taken have been all in one direction, if you will, which is to put pressure on Syria to make clear that Assad has lost his legitimacy to rule and to further isolate his regime as we call on him to cease the violence and to begin a democratic transition in that country.
When he ruled Pakistan, from 1999 to 2008, Mr. Musharraf's regime clashed with the judiciary over the levers of administration, a confrontation that continues to haunt the succeeding democratic government.
The Security Council, condemning the continuing illicit traffic of weapons in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, decided this morning to extend and expand the arms embargo there and its related sanctions regime until 30 November 2010.
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