Aid specifically designed to foster a democratic opening in a nondemocratic country is known as

a. foreign aid.

c. propaganda.

b. free speech.

d. democracy aid.

This is known as democracy aid or democracy assistance.

The foreign aid is more general and rather financial in nature, not political. Free speech is the state of having the freedom to speak up one's mind without fearing repercussions.

Propaganda is information that aims to persuade people to one opinion!