I chose with some consideration, that Central America and Caribbean countries, will be the regional topic to which I will analyze the different levels of democracy, or lack there of in the different states.

IDEA states that “throughout Central America and the Caribbean the task of consolidating democratic institutions in the wake of decades of conflicts is complicated by corruption scandals, citizen discontent and persistent social problems.”

http://www.idea.int/americas/central/index.cfm

As such, I feel as though democratization has been fairly recent in Central America. I’m not entirely sure why, but I’m going to speculate. It could be that so much effort was placed on containing communism from Russia and China that the big powers spent little attention on the America’s- until recently the corruption level of politics in central america had gone relatively unnoticed. IDEA says that implementation of stable democracies started around 1997. Costa Rica, El Salvador, Honduras, Nicaragua and Panama,  have been the focus of UN and International IDEA attempting to solve “electoral Democratic” issues of this region.