Are Protests Useful to Effect Democratic Change in Latin America?
Several cycles of protest and repression have taken place in Latin America during the past ten years, and they form a worrying pattern
Tag: democracy
This Is How Democracies Die in the 21st Century
The death of Venezuelan democracy seems to be replicating in many other countries. How are democracies dying today? A new book by María Puerta Riera explains the diverse and incremental ways this is happening
A Response to ‘The Venezuelan Youth Movement Opposing Democracy’
In a recent piece for Caracas Chronicles, Carlos Rodríguez López links the rise of what he calls an authoritarian nationalism to an artificial nostalgia. For me, this phenomenon is about political exclusion
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