Because the dictatorships in America’s client states ended more or less when the Cold War did, and were replaced by liberal democracies, many were lulled into the comforting belief that liberal democracy and capitalism would naturally – even inevitably – come together everywhere.
Con el fin de la Guerra Fría, las dictaduras de los países tributarios de Estados Unidos fueron convirtiéndose en democracias liberales, y muchos creyeron que la evolución natural (incluso inevitable) sería una transición universal y simultánea a la democracia liberal y el capitalismo.