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Bogota, Oct 14 (EFE).- The integrity of electoral rights, creating guarantees for voters and not putting people's lives at risk from the coronavirus are some of the challenges facing Latin America, the region hardest hit by the pandemic and which in the coming months must hold a number of elections amid profound political and social polarization.LEANDRO QUERIDO, EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR OF ELECTORAL TRANSPARENCY:"This decade is key for Latin America because it is starting in an extremely complex situation, and there are three things at risk.Number one, there is the risk of having another lost decade in terms of the economy. Number two: There is the risk of having devastating decade-long setbacks in human development and in some countries even two decades in terms of poverty, inequality and unemployment. And number three: This entire context could create a deterioration in the quality of democracy and even a setback in democratic terms."

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