Latin America’s Imperiled Progress: “People Power” in Paraguay

With a skillfully conveyed message of managerial competence and an electorate disenchanted by a floundering economy and the outgoing incumbent’s confrontational style, Mauricio Macri demonstrated that a non-Peronist can win…

President Hugo Cháez's regime demonstrates how a public desire for change plus state resources can be exploited to undermine democracy.

Latin America’s recent experience shows that effective democratic governance is difficult to achieve and depends on many factors, some of them context-specific. Nonetheless, it is possible to draw some general…