A corruption scandal reaching up to outgoing President Otto Pérez Molina threatens to derail democratic rule in Guatemala ahead of the presidential election scheduled for September 6. Having announced on national television that he will not resign, Pérez Molina is resisting popular protests demanding that anticorruption reforms be passed before the next election is held.
A recent panel discussion organized by the International Forum for Democratic Studies with a group of leading experts assessed how authoritarian regimes are creating new illiberal norms and institutions as part of their efforts to reshape global governance toward their own preferences. The speakers described how illiberal regimes in Eurasia, the Middle East and North Africa, and Latin America are attempting to reforge global institutional frameworks by prioritizing state sovereignty, security, and mutual non-interference over democratic accountability, government transparency, and respect for human rights.
Senadores demócratas y republicanos, miembros del Estado Mayor Conjunto, representantes de la Oficina de Derechos Humanos y varios delegados de los Departamentos de Comercio, del Tesoro y del Estado. Nada menos que 19 personalidades del gobierno y de la política de Estados Unidos llegaron este viernes a participar en la ceremonia oficial de apertura de la embajada de ese país en La Habana, que estuvo cerrada durante más de 54 años tras la ruptura de las relaciones diplomáticas entre Washington y La Habana.
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The monograph, written by R. Evan Ellis, is a detailed examination of Russia’s contemporary military, political and economic activities in Latin America and the Caribbean, including an analysis of the strategic implications for the U.S. and the region, as well as recommendations for U.S. policymakers.
Taking Cuba off the list has two main consequences, diplomatic and economic, said Christopher Sabatini, a Columbia University professor who specializes in Cuba studies. “This is something that for a long time sort of stuck in the craw of the Cubans, who really resented being lumped together with countries like Iran and Syria,” he said.
