Fates of 53 dissidents show difficulty of Cuba policy
The fates of 53 dissidents released as a result of Washington’s rapprochement with Havana show just how hard it will be for the U.S. to push human rights in Cuba… Read more »
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Cuban dissidents freed in rapprochement back in custody
President Obama may go to Cuba this year if its government bolsters its human rights record and opens its doors more fully to American business in the coming weeks, a… Read more »
Silva: Brazil can help Cuban transition to democracy
A former Amazon activist and Environment Minister Marina Silva is in a dead-heat presidential race with President Dilma Rousseff, who represents the Workers Party, which she herself helped found three… Read more »
Responding to authoritarian information ops in Latin America
The Russian government is currently financing an on-going, well-funded disinformation campaign across Latin America, the U.S. State Department reports. The Kremlin’s campaign plans to leverage developed media contacts in Argentina,… Read more »
Is the world still in a ‘democratic recession’?
“Democracy’s Surprising Resilience” is the focus of an article in the National Endowment for Democracy‘s Journal of Democracy. Steve Levitsky and Lucan Way write that authoritarians have found it difficult to… Read more »
New alliance for freedom can challenge autocracy ‘from the front lines’
A new “alliance of democracy defenders” is imperative to counter the intensifying cooperation among members of a global “autocratic network,” Venezuelan opposition leader and former political prisoner Leopoldo López contends… Read more »
Wife of jailed Russian dissident addresses UN
Evgenia Kara-Murza, the wife of imprisoned Russian opposition leader Vladimir Kara-Murza, spoke today on behalf of UN Watch, a leading voice at the United Nations for human rights in Russia,… Read more »
As autocrats contest Human Rights Council, ‘Who Guards the Guardians?’
The rights situation in Russia has “significantly deteriorated” since President Vladimir Putin launched his war against Ukraine in February last year, an expert commissioned by the U.N.’s top human rights… Read more »
Russia’s political trajectory – ‘disintegrating’ towards failed state or did Prigozhin’s putsch prop up Putin?
As the war in Ukraine unfolded last year, Russia’s best digital spies turned to new tools to fight an enemy on another front: those inside its own borders who opposed the… Read more »
Carlos Alberto Montaner, R.I.P.
It is with great sadness that I share the news that Carlos Alberto Montaner has passed away, writes Aimel Rios Wong, Senior Manager for Latin America and the Caribbean at… Read more »