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Threats to democracy increase as President Bukele moves to control El Salvador’s judiciary
, | President Nayib Bukele’s drive to consolidate power represents another test of the international community’s ability to defend democratic principles. With ...
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Latin America’s Former Presidents Have Way Too Much Power
Javier Corrales |
On Sunday, voters elected Guillermo Lasso, a former banker and a supporter of free-market policies, as president of Ecuador over Andrés Arauz, a left-wing ...
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Latin America’s Surprisingly Resilient Democracies
Richard E. Feinberg and Benjamin N. Gedan | 
Pro-democracy activists once held up Latin America as a crowning achievement, a region notorious for 19th-century caudillos and Cold War military ...
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Chinese-style democracy
Juan Pablo Cardenal |
The public spat between the United States and China at the recent bilateral summit held in Alaska clearly showed that future relations between the two ...
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Una hoja de ruta para la crisis de gobernanza de Haití
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Mientras la comunidad internacional reflexiona sobre el tipo de intervención que desea tener en la prolongada crisis de gobernanza en Haití, la situación ...
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Building a roadmap for Haiti’s governance crisis
Georges Fauriol | 
The current situation in Haiti raises concern regarding the status of the country's democracy, leaving the international community to evaluate their ...
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El Salvador’s legislative elections and the challenge to democracy
Orlando J. Pérez and Randy Pestana | 
President Nayib Bukele's Nuevas Ideas party won more than two-thirds of the votes in El Salvador's February 28 legislative elections. The consolidation of ...
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The Biden Administration and Central America: Meeting the challenge of corruption and authoritarianism
Orlando J. Pérez | 
Among the first critical tests of the Biden administration will be the November 2021 presidential elections in Honduras and Nicaragua. Both countries are ...
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Four years later, Biden faces a different Latin America
Dinorah Azpuru | 
Data from the AmericasBarometer survey shows that Latin Americans' faith in the U.S. government and democracy has declined while their trust in the ...
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As the United States raggedly marches toward the January 20th inauguration, politicians and media pundits have, ironically, likened the tumultuous ...