by Chanul Baek | Apr 20, 2026 | George Mason University, Universities
Democracies do not usually collapse in some dramatic moments. There is no single night where everything suddenly falls. Most of time, they fade slowly and almost silently until the day they are not really democracies anymore. That is what happened in Venezuela....
by Lizzie Casazza | Mar 30, 2026 | University of Houston
In November 2023, self-proclaimed anarcho-capitalist Javier Milei won the Argentinian presidency. His campaign ran on the promise of dismantling the existing political establishment that many Argentinians had grown dissatisfied with. Yet, rather than departing from...
by Lucinda Posner | Dec 10, 2025 | University of Pittsburgh
On July 31st, 2025, El Salvador’s Legislative Assembly passed a new constitutional amendment 57 to three votes to allow the current president, Nayib Bukele, to run for a third term. The amendment also takes away an old provision that citizens lose their citizenship...
by Kaya Groff | Dec 5, 2025 | University of Georgia
In September of 2025, just months before the presidential election, two contentious reforms were passed to change voting laws in Chile to curb the voting capacity and the obligation to vote for non-citizen residents in Chile. Not only will non-citizens be exempt from...
by Rebecca Viana | Nov 30, 2025 | Northeastern University
“In Brazil, impunity for those who attack democracy has always been the rule. This trial breaks that cycle” — Oscar Vilhena Vieira (2025).” Brazil’s Supreme Federal Court (STF) has recently upheld the decision to convict former Brazilian president Jair Bolsonaro, who...
