Is democracy the dividing line in Latin America?
The Biden administration has made a final decision to exclude the governments of Cuba, Venezuela and Nicaragua from the Summit of the Americas, people familiar with the matter said,… Read more »
Category: Latin America/Caribbean
Summit of the Americas a venue for advancing democracy?
The Summit of the Americas can be an opportunity to reconnect the United States with Latin American’s democracies – and contest China’s growing influence, says Dinorah Azpuru, a professor of… Read more »
Venezuela’s democracy is ‘not a commodity’
The Venezuelan opposition faction backed by the United States announced plans Monday to hold a primary contest next year to choose a presidential candidate for the planned 2024 election, AP reports. The… Read more »
Global initiative to free political prisoners launched as Navalny convicted – again
A Russian court on Tuesday convicted top opposition leader Alexei Navalny of fraud and contempt of court, sentencing him to nine more years in prison in a move that was… Read more »
A path to Venezuela’s re-democratization?
Many experts now believe that the path to Venezuela’s re-democratization involves a lengthy negotiation process leading to free and fair presidential elections and the rebuilding of democratic institutions, says a… Read more »
Colombia’s elections of discontent
Many Colombians, tired of the country’s prolonged period of polarization, hoped this would be the year things changed, according to Theodore Kahn and Sylvana Amaya, senior analysts in Control Risks’… Read more »
Latin America increasingly perilous region for human rights defenders, report says
Latin America is one of the world’s most dangerous regions for human rights defenders, accounting for more than three-quarters of all murders of activists in 2020, according to a new… Read more »
Defying political science? Panama’s trajectory to resilience
The Central American country has defied many assumptions of political science to produce one of the world’s most impressive trajectories of the past three decades, resulting in a notably resilient… Read more »
‘No coincidence’: Anti-corruption efforts stagnate with democracy under assault, says CPI
Corruption levels remain at a standstill worldwide, with 86 per cent of countries making little to no progress in the last 10 years, according to the 2021 Corruption Perceptions Index… Read more »
Latin American democracy: Four reasons to be optimistic
Democracy is being harassed everywhere and Central America is suffering, too. Yet in this small corner of the Western hemisphere, the consequences of democratic breakdown could be especially dire for… Read more »