[phowat]

Which social democracy is doing well here in south america? We are currently paying the price for all the post-socialist economical measures here in Brazil.It's not pretty.

[RobertoG]

As I have some Brazilian friends that disagree with you I went to the statistic data and it doesn't look so bad.

For instance,the poverty headcount:

http://data.worldbank.org/indicator/SI.POV.NAHC?locations=BR

Specially against this one, a growing population:

http://data.worldbank.org/indicator/SP.POP.TOTL?locations=BR

[njs12345]

Ecuador didn't do too badly under Correa: http://cepr.net/images/stories/reports/ecuador-2017-02.pdf