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 »
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Russia’s biggest problem? Losing the 21st century
Vladimir Putin looks like a blundering thug in the hollowed-out gangland to which he has reduced Russia. The Wagner Group mutiny has exposed his growing weakness https://t.co/PEg9J0bpCl pic.twitter.com/NMsHv0VgMC — The… Read more »
Colombia already tired of ‘government of change’?
Colombian President Gustavo Petro will likely pave the way for a far-right administration in the same way that Iván Duque paved the way for Petro’s own rise to power, says… Read more »
‘Putin’s in a zugzwang’: The beginning of the end?
As rattled as they may have been by an armed insurrection in a nuclear-weapons state, Russia’s friends and business partners are unlikely to abandon Vladimir Putin, according to diplomats and… Read more »
Dictators’ dark secret: authoritarian learning
How did so many autocracies come to adopt the same anti-democratic strategies and repressive methods in the same decade? The Washington Post asks: The answers are difficult to find —… Read more »
A biopsy on India’s fragile democracy
Since Prime Minister Narendra Modi rose to power in 2014, his government has engaged in what is, by some accounts, a wholesale dismantling of democratic institutions, norms, and practices, The Journal… Read more »
Ukraine’s Zelenskyy: Russia very, very afraid of…’
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has told the Ukraine Recovery Conference (above) that “democracy paves the way for the rule of law”. He said resources and land were not the only… Read more »
Democracy playbook will counter ‘springboard for extra-hemispheric authoritarians’
The democratic, relatively prosperous and largely pro-U.S. nature of Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) has been a strategic asset for the United States for decades. Yet, the region today… Read more »
‘A History of Violence’ drives Vietnam’s tightened public sphere
Civil society and human rights groups today issued an open letter to former US President Barack Obama to request assistance in calling for the unconditional release from jail of Obama… Read more »
‘A Region Torn and Fragmented?’ Authoritarian and democratic dynamics in Central Europe
The post-1989 transformation of Central Europe was often seen as the pinnacle of the Third Wave of Democratization. Now, the region is torn and fragmented along different democratic and illiberal-authoritarian… Read more »