The #Castro regime has aged badly. Cuba’s rum was legendary, before the regime stole it to finance their repression. Now every bottle sold keeps Cuba’s dictatorship in power longer…. Read more »
My column this week: Peru is heading towards a dangerous new populism https://t.co/m3cMa5pb7z — Michael Reid (@michaelreid52) July 23, 2020 In her 2017 book, Democracy: Stories From the Long… Read more »
China has employed high-tech surveillance tools and thousands of law enforcement officers to lock down the restive Xinjiang province in a bid to halt the largest outbreak of Covid-19 since… Read more »
Bello – The return of rigged elections in Latin America https://t.co/4yXJS4TPMY — Democracy Digest (@demdigest) July 30, 2020 Latin America is facing a ‘decline of democracy’ under the Covid pandemic,… Read more »
Efforts to bring stability to Sudan’s conflict-ridden Darfur region have failed to reassure residents fearful of rising violence which has cast a shadow over peace negotiations, Reuters reports (HT:FDD)…. Read more »
Police in Belarus have arbitrarily arrested journalists, bloggers, and political activists ahead of the August 9, 2020 presidential election and pressed charges against two potential candidates, Human Rights Watch said… Read more »
Soon after Covid-19 was declared a pandemic by the World Health Organization, in perhaps the greatest intellectual explosion of futures thinking in human history, governments, businesses, institutions, and individuals asked… Read more »
Postponed elections. Sidelined courts. A persecuted opposition. As the coronavirus pandemic tears through Latin America and the Caribbean, killing more than 180,000 and destroying the livelihoods of tens of millions… Read more »
The rise of autocrats today indicates that charismatic leaders, especially those who maintain that achieving national glory trumps boring institutions like laws, are finding a receptive audience, a new book… Read more »
A new call for UK to do more to stand up for democracy around around the world. More should be done by all democracies in solidarity with those fighting… Read more »