Ideally, this should come about in a manner similar to democratic transitions in Latin America in the 1980’s, when authoritarian, army-backed rulers yielded to popular demands for radical, democratic regime change. Resorting to thugs to carry out widespread intimidation, and blaming violence on the largely peaceful protests of hundreds of thousands of ordinary Egyptians, as their government has done, is not a good omen.
理想情况下，政权更迭应当采取类似拉美20世纪80年代的民主过渡形式，当时军队支持下的独裁统治者顺应民众要求，进行了激进的民主政权更替。 像埃及政府那样利用暴徒实行广泛恐吓绝非吉兆，专制政权对几十万普通埃及民众以和平抗议为主的运动进行了暴力歪曲。