Military coup tolerance under high crime in Latin America by country 2019

In a survey conducted between 2018 and 2019, about 60 percent of the people interviewed in Jamaica said a military coup would be justifiable in case of high crime. This was the highest level of tolerance of military coups due to crime in all the Latin American and Caribbean countries surveyed. At the other end of the spectrum, less than 24 percent of the voting-age adults interviewed in Uruguay would justify a military coup in case of high levels of crime.

Tolerance of military coups under high crime in selected countries in Latin America and the Caribbean as of 2019

Characteristic	Share of respondents
Jamaica	65%
Peru	52.6%
Ecuador	50.4%
Guatemala	48.6%
Mexico	44%
Bolivia	42.1%
Paraguay	41.8%
Honduras	40.4%
Chile	37.5%
Costa Rica	37%
Brazil	36.8%
Dominican Republic	35%
Nicaragua	34.7%
El Salvador	31%
Argentina	30.2%
Panama	29.8%
Colombia	25%
Uruguay	23.8%

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Release date

October 2019

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Region

LAC

Survey time period

September 2018 to April 2019

Special properties

Voting-age adults

Method of interview

Face-to-face interview

Supplementary notes

The source does not specify the number of respondents. In the previous edition of the study, the sample amounted to approximately 1,500 respondents in each country.
This statistic represents the share of respondents who agreed with the following statement: "A military take-over of the state would be justified: - When there is a lot of corruption". The wording chosen for this statistic may slightly differ from the original.

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