Topic: Role of the UN in Encouraging and Aiding Democratization
Country: Guatemala
Delegate Name: Nicholas Greanias
School: Saginaw Arts and Sciences Academy
Topic page: background guide and all position papers All Guatemala position papers GLIMUN 2012 committees
Guatemala believes that a strong democratic government body can be very beneficial to a country. Our great country it self was switched over to democracy, but not by the way that I believe should be used. Democracy must be used right though, if we were to help the spread of it. The closer that we get to a democratic world is the more closer we get to peace.
Democracy is a very delicate system. While it does work in most of the countries it has been in, if you do not help it become stable, then it can fail, and a dictator can use this to come in. A good example would be in 1954 when the CIA orchestrated a coup to overthrow the Guatemalan government at the time. The following years brought unstable conditions. Multiple coups from inside the country tried to overthrow the government and even a case of genocide within the country happened.
If the UN is not careful with how it brings about the spread of democracy, then we could be in a worse mess then we are in right now. If we introduce democracy, but then do not make the country stable, it will make things worse. We also cannot allow corrupt leaders to rule these democratic countries, since that will also make things worse. We need to start the spread of democracy now, to hopefully make it easier, and improve the world everywhere because of it.
We Guatemala support the spread of Democracy, but understand the need to support the countries after the switch. We hope the rest of the UN will realize this.
