Taiwan, Philippines, Egypt, South Korea. Arguably India, but there was so much bad mixed with the good.
The Caribbean is a special case though where there are lots of miraculous turnarounds because tourism is so lucrative.
The Caribbean is a special case though where there are lots of miraculous turnarounds because tourism is so lucrative.
The West supported an brutal military dictatorship in South Korea for decades. South Korean democracy is the result of internal struggle by the South Korean people.
I mean, the US was a huge supporter of Suharto in Indonesia as the "less bad" option to the thread of communism, and Mubarak in Egypt as an alternative to the worse option of a Islamic Brotherhood run state, or possibly something even more deeply Soviet aligned. I don't think there is any "lesser evil" warlord to pick in Haiti right now and prop up above any of the others.