Venezuela’s Vulnerable Democracy

For much of its history, Nicaragua has shown a predilection for personalist and populist rule. What explains the persistence and allure of these phenomena, and what obstacles do they pose…

The beauty of Mexico’s transition to democracy lay in the way it evolved gradually and peacefully over the course of a decade.

The triumph of far-right populist Jair Bolsonaro in Brazil’s October 2018 presidential election was made possible by a series of economic, social, and political crises that have shaken Brazilian democracy.