Either Way, Peru’s Election Is Bad News for Anti-Graft Efforts
The two candidates facing off in Peru’s upcoming presidential run-off election, Keiko Fujimori and Pedro Castillo, couldn’t be further apart ideologically. Castillo, who belongs to a party that...
View ArticleTo Buck Global Pressure, Latin America’s Dictators Turn to ‘Isolation-Proofing’
Many Latin American countries have grappled with democratic backsliding in recent years. But recent sham elections in Venezuela and Nicaragua marked a new low. On Sunday, the regime led by Venezuelan...
View ArticleCastro Will Have Her Hands Full Cleaning Up Honduras’ Mafia State
In Honduras’ presidential election on Nov. 28, Xiomara Castro and her allies among the country’s political opposition ousted the ruling National Party, which has spent the past decade using corruption,...
View ArticleA Surge in Crime and Violence Has Ecuador Reeling
Ecuador might be caught up in a political crisis, with President Guillermo Lasso having dissolved the National Assembly and called snap elections for later this year. But if you ask most Ecuadorians...
View ArticleGuatemala’s Election Could Sound Democracy’s Death Knell
Guatemala might be holding general elections on June 25, but it is rapidly losing its claim to be a democracy. A cohort of predatory factions has been jointly coopting independent institutions and...
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