In Latin America, Democracia tutelada has a whole other meaning from Wehrhafte Demokratie, and it is more akin to the Turkish or Pakistani system where the military is the final arbiter of whether the country's political system is staying "true to its purpose" and the country is liable to go in and out of military rule to "correct" deviations. In Spain, the attempted coup of 1981 February 23 represented the dying throes of democracia tutelada in Spain, and underscored Juan Carlos' commitment to an autonomous democratic system. I honestly don't know to what extent the Spanish military might take its constitutional role as "guarantor of the indivisible unity of the Spanish nation" to its ultimate consequences: it is certainly something that crops up regularly in relation to the Basque issue, but I am not sure that it is not a rhetorical excess on the part both of the basque independentists and of the military brass...

Hrmpft... Another disorganized rant.

A society committed to the notion that government is always bad will have bad government. And it doesn't have to be that way. — Paul Krugman