本文按照亨廷顿民主化进程三浪潮的划分,考察拉丁美洲民主化进程的历史,证明三次民主化浪潮的历史是一个从内源民主化到外源民主化的扭曲的变化过程;证明发展中国家的民主化进程和发达国家的民主化进程是不同的,并不存在一种普世性的民主制度。因而文章得出结论:后进现代化国家应该坚持从自己的国情出发,走自己的民主化之路。 This article examines the history of democratization in Latin America according to the three tides of Huntington’s democratization process and proves that the history of the three democratization waves is a distorted process of change from endogenous democratization to exogenous democratization. The process of democratization is different from that of the democratization of the developed countries. There is no universal democratic system. Therefore, the article concludes that backward modernized countries should stick to their own national conditions and take their own way of democratization.