by Patricia Villa | Mar 20, 2018 | University of the Philippines, Diliman
President Rodrigo Duterte’s paranoia may just be an ingredient to the brewing erosion of democracy in the Philippines and it is time that we check back on it. Since his ascension to the presidency, Duterte’s enjoyment of wide public support has been known to be backed...
by DONYEA EMORIE GRAYSON | Mar 15, 2018 | University of California, Los Angeles
Mexico’s presidential election is right around the corner. July 1st, 2018 is when general elections take place and this could completely change the future of Mexico and its many citizens. At the start of election season there were roughly 85 candidates...
by ESTHER NGOZIKA EKWUEME | Mar 15, 2018 | University of California, Los Angeles
Fall of 2017 up until today has been a very interesting political period for Kenya as a country and its people. In August of 2017 a general election was held where the “current” president, Uhuru Kenyatta, won presidency for a second term. However...
by OSNY DAVID CALDERON | Mar 15, 2018 | University of California, Los Angeles
Following the death of extremely popular president of Venezuela Hugo Chavez in 2013, his vice president and handpicked successor Nicolás Maduro was appointed and later narrowly elected President only winning 50.6 percent of the vote. Maduro claimed he would continue...
by BENJAMIN LEE | Mar 15, 2018 | University of California, Los Angeles
On January 15, 2018, Dariusz Zawistowski, the president of Poland’s National Council of the Judiciary (KRS), the body in charge of maintaining the impartiality of Polish courts, resigned from his position “as a sign of protest” in response to the Law...
