Brazil is currently facing a number of struggles. One of those struggles is that indigenous Brazilians are facing the loss of their land and threats on their lives. A series of events have garnered …
A Game of (Presidential) Thrones: The Burgeoning Alliances in Venezuela’s Ongoing Political Crisis
Much like the warring families in George R.R. Martin’s bestselling fiction series Game of Thrones, Juan Guaidó and Nicolás Maduro have allies from beyond their borders which, like in the ending …
The Road Ahead: Democratic Reconstruction in a Post-Transition Venezuela by Colton Wade
Under the world’s gaze, two individuals have spent the last three months engaged in a binary struggle for power in Venezuela—Juan Guaidó, the interim president, and Nicolás Maduro, the de facto …
Chronicle of a Crisis Foretold: Chavez playbook on the current Venezuelan crisis. By David Ardila
The Venezuelan regime has essentially run out of vocal supporters in the international scene. A decade ago, several prominent public figures and politicians praised and defended the Chavez regime as …
Donald Trump’s Negative Example is Trending with Jair Bolsonaro by Austin Anderson
Denouncing reporter's statements as “fake news”, moving the embassy in Israel from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem, pulling out of the Paris Accords, a political battle against Venezuela’s president Nicolas …
Evo Morales’s 2019 Presidential Run and How We Got Here by Brett Jones
Not many would disagree, international observers and Bolivians alike, that this upcoming election in Bolivia will be a fork in the road for the country and the state of its democracy. The election …
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Mr. Bolsonaro Comes to Washington
by Sarah Ampolsk “It’s an honor to be here after decades of anti-American presidents,” Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro told U.S. President Donald Trump in the Oval Office today. Bolsonaro, …
Despite Challenges and Controversy, the Macri Administration Has Yet to Display Signs of Democratic Rollbacks by Jane Huber @Skidmore College
Argentina has had a tumultuous relationship with democracy and populist leaders over the last century. Since the rise of Peronismo in the 1940s, no non-Peronist leader has maintained the presidency …