Across the continent Latin American democracies face a plague of corruption scandals and protest | Democracy, elections and voting at Democracy Chronicles

When Peruvian-born Nobel Prize winner Mario Vargas Llosa told me in a public interview in front of 300 newspaper editors last weekend that “corruption is the biggest threat to Latin American democracies,” my first reaction was to think that it was an exaggeration. But, on second thought, he may be right. At first, when Vargas Llosa…