Twenty-five years after its creation, the Inter-American Democratic Charter faces the challenge of containing democratic erosion that the OAS’s tools have failed to prevent.

The United States’ withdrawal from multilateralism accelerates the fragmentation of the inter-American system and opens a “post-American” scenario in which China advances amid weakened regional governance.

U.S. foreign policy continues to rely on coercion, but by ignoring the internal dynamics of its partners, it ends up generating resistance, nationalism, and a loss of influence in the region.