Juan Orlando Hernández’s escape from legal accountability at home and abroad point to the larger challenges of democracy building under the shadow of US power.
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The Epstein case points beyond an individual scandal to a broader system of elites in which capital, insularity, and impunity underpin male domination.
Kenyan regimes have long adopted brutal policing approaches to sustain themselves in power.
Police brutality thrives in environments where wrongdoing goes unpunished.
Kenya’s police have a long history of using excessive force.
Liberia’s next president must restore national cohesion, tackle corruption, and strengthen state institutions.
Two recent incidents involving gang rape and murder have highlighted the problems of sexual violence against women in India.
Political protests in Kenya have become insular, sectarian, tribal and unashamedly personality driven.
The culture of impunity that has lingered since the presidency of Jacob Zuma has to give way to a new era of integrity and accountability.
The new book is structured around apartheid profiteers, war profiteers, state capture profiteers, welfare profiteers, failing auditors, conspiring consultants and bad lawyers.
The Taliban is responsible for atrocities dating back to the 1990s, but has never been held responsible. The international community can play a role in ending the impunity.
The extent of democracy capture varies markedly between countries. It’s much higher in states such as Zimbabwe, where the government has never changed hands.
A lethal turf war between drug traffickers has terrorized Buenaventura, Colombia for months. Now protesters are demanding the government’s help to protect people in this mostly Black city.
The first of a series of fatal flaws in the idea is about where to draw the line.
For democracy to work in Kenya the country needs good leadership. Politicians must uphold the constitution to infuse trust and confidence in state institutions.
Research shows black men are less likely to exercise in white neighborhoods. Those who do jog report having police called and neighbors shun them.
Trump officials plan to send asylum seekers from the US to El Salvador while their claims are processed. That would expose these vulnerable people to grave dangers, says a political violence expert.
For their next president, Guatemalans must choose between two veteran politicians with shady pasts and alleged ties to organized crime.
To stop sexual exploitation in the aid sector, more self-regulation by NGOs isn’t the answer.
Corruption, not gang warfare, is the root cause of the record violence in El Salvador, Honduras and Guatemala. Until public officials stop shielding criminal groups like MS-13, lawlessness will reign.
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