By Jorge G. Castañeda and Carlos OminamiNEW YORK — Recent years have not been good ones for democracy in Latin America. Despite being home to just 8.4 per cent of the world’s population, the region accounted for 26 per cent of total COVID-19 deaths (as of last December), and in 2020, it experienced a fall in GDP twice as steep as the global average, with tens of millions of