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Prematurely declaring election victory is a hallmark of non-democratic regimes.
Countries or international organizations regularly enact sanctions against individual states. But how can the effectiveness of these measures be evaluated?
Latin American history shows that sending out troops to quell unrest is a perilous move even in strong democracies. Usually, protesters die. Sometimes, the end result is authoritarianism rule.
The coronavirus-related closure of the Colombian border hasn’t stopped desperate Venezuelans from entering – but it has made the trip more dangerous.
US denies backing failed raid to remove Venezuela’s Nicolás Maduro – but it has a long history of sponsoring private armies elsewhere.
If anyone can convince the Maduro government and the Venezuelan opposition to come together to fight COVID-19, it’s the Pope. But the Church’s power to negotiate an emergency deal is limited.
If Brazil can find an efficient, pragmatic way to welcome, protect and integrate hundreds of thousands of forced migrants arriving at its border, so can more affluent states.
The only centre for LGBTQ+ refugees in Latin America is overwhelmed by demand and is struggling to take in refugees from Venezuela.
There’s much more going on in the world than the Trump impeachment and Brexit. Here are five momentous global stories to track in 2020.
Economic growth is a red herring if economies can’t stop themselves shrinking more and more.
In the last century, several South American countries faced coups, military dictatorships and social uprisings. Despite economic improvements in recent years, the continent remains mired in unrest.
Was the ban a Muslim ban – or was that just an anti-Trump narrative? A political scientist combs through the data for answers.
Progressives are leading in the presidential elections of Argentina, Uruguay and Bolivia, bucking the region’s recent rightward trend. But there are lessons in the failures of leftists past.
When the Rio Treaty was signed in 1947, an opportunity was missed to promote democracy in Latin America.
Citing national security, Ecuador, Peru and Chile have all made it harder for Venezuelan migrants to enter the country, and xenophobia is rising across the region – even in more welcoming Colombia.
For one, you can’t break an economy that’s already broken.
The devastating costs of economic sanctions on Venezuela are being ignored or disregarded. So too is the lack of a legal basis for international intervention.
At the beginning of the 1980s, homicides were relatively rare in Venezuela. Now, it’s one of the most dangerous countries in Latin America.
Venezuela’s most famous political prisoner, freed from house arrest by soldiers who turned against President Maduro, now faces arrest after leading an April 30 rebellion against Maduro’s government.
Top contributors
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Professor of Management and Organization, University of Southern California
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Associate Professor, Universidad Central de Venezuela
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Richard von Weizsäcker Fellow na Bosch Academy e Co-fundador, Instituto Igarapé; Princeton University
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Professor of Management and Co-director of the Centre for Latin American & Caribbean Studies, University of Essex
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Fellow in Business and Human Rights, UCL
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Associate Professor of Latin American Studies, Sociology and Criminology, University of Florida
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Professor of Sociology, Tulane University
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Researcher, UCL
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Professor of Political Science, Georgia State University; Institute for Humane Studies
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Associate Professor of Global Studies, Appalachian State University
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Visiting professor, Harvard University
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Senior Visiting Scholar with the Center for the Study of Genocide and Human Rights, Rutgers University
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Visiting Scholar, Weatherhead Center for International Affairs, Harvard University; Director of Studies at the Changing Character of War Centre, and Senior Research Fellow, Dept. of Politics and International Relations, University of Oxford
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Research Associate, Department of Development Studies, SOAS, University of London
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Director of the Center for Political Studies, Universidad Católica Andrés Bello