Why tiny Nicaragua is a big problem
The turmoil in Nicaragua has been overshadowed by events in nearby Venezuela, Haiti and Cuba, not to mention other parts of the world, notes Nahal Toosi. But the tiny country… Read more »
Category: Latin America/Caribbean
Can Latin American democracies survive fake news?
A photoshopped image depicting Pope Francis smoking marijuana with former Bolivian President Evo Morales, thus “proving” the Argentine pontiff is a decadent socialist at heart, was the most ridiculous recent… Read more »
Countering Central America’s polarization and democratic backsliding
The European Union (EU) will probably refuse to acknowledge the result of the Nicaraguan elections on November 7, according to a source. “We have a clear idea of what is… Read more »
Salvador ‘rocked’ by anti-Bukele protests
Thousands protest against Bukele in El Salvador as grievances mount https://t.co/brECF02iAe — Democracy Digest (@demdigest) October 18, 2021 Thousands of people in El Salvador took to the streets on Sunday… Read more »
Former Sandinista slams Nicaragua’s ‘repressive machinery’
Why is a government that controls the country’s armed forces and security apparatus afraid of a novel? More than four decades after the defeat of the Somoza dictatorship, Sergio Ramírez… Read more »
Central America ‘fell off a cliff’: Reframing democracy support
Latin America’s democracies look almost uniformly less healthy than they did a decade ago, the Economist reports. Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken recently announced sanctions against seven public officials in… Read more »
Central America: Civil society vs dictators’ playbook
As the United States rolls back some of its global commitments, it should prepare for a homecoming of sorts, a political reengagement with its hemispheric neighborhood that is deeper and… Read more »
Democrats sound alarm as Bolsonaro tests Brazilian democracy
The attempts by Brazil’s president Jair Bolsonaro to engineer social media regulation to keep his messages and those of his supporters safe from removal is yet another move which appears… Read more »
Venezuela’s Mafia State ‘slides toward anarchy’
Has Venezuela’s social and cultural pluralism resisted Chavismo’s efforts at cooptation to provide an alternative to an authoritarian regime or does the country face only dim scenarios? Think tanks and… Read more »
How to build conditions for transition in Venezuela
President Joe Biden and his advisors should build a framework of incentives designed to nudge a political transition in Venezuela, argues Jorge Jraissati, the president of the Venezuelan Alliance…. Read more »