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Venecuba/Cubazuela confirmed? Tape reveals elite infighting, Cuban influence,...
Fidel Castro called on the late President Hugo Chávez to stop holding elections, according to a recording of a telephone conversation between a pro-government TV host and a senior Cuban intelligence...
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Internet lets Cubans transcend geography and speech curbs, dissident tells forum
New technologies are allowing Cuba’s independent voices “to narrate and to try to change our reality,” says a leading dissident. “Here in Stockholm it has felt rather like Cuba, though certainly not...
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Nicaragua denies entry to International Democrats
Nicaragua’s Sandinista government has denied entry to a delegation from the International Democrat Union. The group of four Latin American and European parliamentarians headed by Venezuelan former...
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Latin America: autocrats’ actions, OAS silence prompt call for ‘rebirth of...
Venezuela has “reacted with fury” to this week’s talks between Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos and Venezuelan opposition leader Henrique Capriles, describing the meeting as a “bomb” and...
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‘Authoritarian Black Market’ a growth industry
Authoritarian regimes around the world are banding together to bypass international institutions and human rights norms that conflict with their abusive practices, writes analyst Andrew Rizzardi....
View ArticleAdvancing labor rights, digital tools and civil society in Cuba
The Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor (DRL) invites organizations to submit proposals for projects that promote democracy and human rights in Cuba. Independent Journalism (subject to the...
View ArticleCall to end Ecuador’s ‘totalitarian’ assault on free speech
Media freedom and human rights groups today denounced Ecuador’s new media law as an authoritarian measure designed to stifle dissent. The Communications Law approved by the National Assembly on June...
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Afro-Cubans fight for equality, reform – racism a grave problem
Afro-Cuban dissident Cuesta Morua (right) can’t understand why some American progressives who marched with Martin Luther King Jr. or identify with him today can support a regime that would never...
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Ecuador an unlikely champion of media freedom
“Should Edward Snowden successfully find political asylum in Quito, he will find warmer weather than in Moscow, better food than in Havana and more security than in Caracas,” say two leading analysts....
View ArticleThe Illusion of Cuban Reform: Change by Attrition
“When contemplating change in Cuba, one must be mindful that for the past half-century Cuba’s history and political culture has been shaped and dominated by the Castro brothers and their ideas,” says...
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Q. Why is Latin America becoming less democratic? A. Populism
Populism, whether of the left or the right, is a threat to democracy. Yet in Latin America today, the graver and more sustained danger is coming from the leftist variant. Chávez set the model, writes...
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Representative Democracy and the Allocation of Scarce Resources in Central...
Central America’s representative democracies have...
View ArticleCuba After Communism: apology or analysis?
“Cuba has entered a new era of economic reform that defies easy comparison to post-Communist transitions elsewhere,” two analysts claim, calling on Washington to “take the initiative and establish a...
View ArticleWhy Cuba’s reforms won’t work
“Every Monday in the bowels of Cuba’s Palace of the Revolution, a group of men and women charged with revamping the island’s moribund economy meets to review progress in building what they have...
View ArticleCuba’s ‘harsh self-assessment’ – Communist regime’s moral degradation
“President Raúl Castro unleashed his fiercest and lengthiest public lecture to date on the demise of Cuban culture and conduct,” writes New York Times reporter Victoria Burnet: In a speech to the...
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What’s behind global unrest?
Q. What is the common denominator between the revolts of the Arab Spring and killing of 34 strikers at South Africa’s Marikana platinum mine in August 2012? A. Global food prices. …… according to...
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Latin America’s Authoritarian Drift – the podcast
The Journal of Democracy’s Managing Editor Brent Kallmer talked with Kurt Weyland about his article, “Latin America’s Authoritarian Drift: The Threat from the Populist Left,” from the July 2013 issue...
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US envoy to UN asks Cuba to probe dissident’s death
Cuba’s communist authorities should launch a “credible investigation” into the death of dissident Oswaldo Paya (above), says the newly-appointed U.S. ambassador to the United Nations. Samantha Power...
View ArticleCuba’s opposition may spark work stoppage, says dissident Antúnez
Opponents of Cuba’s communist regime may call for rolling strike action to undermine the authorities’ ability to stifle dissent, says a prominent activist. The stoppage “will be a gradual, patient and...
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Venezuela opposition ‘under siege’
“Venezuela’s opposition says authorities have ordered the arrest of a close adviser to opposition leader Henrique Capriles (right),” The Associated Press reports: The MUD opposition coalition...
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