Anti-Democracy Without Borders
March 20, 2018
While the media focuses on his personality and his tweets, Donald Trump is leading an antidemocratic project that has serious implications for the United States and the rest of the world.
Category: Democracies
‘We Have to Participate in this Electoral Process So They’ll Turn Around and See our Peoples’: An Interview With Marichuy
March 20, 2018
We want to take advantage of this process to reach every corner of this country, especially our communities, but also in the cities, to say we need to create another form of government. And that this government needs to emerge from people who get organized.
‘Pre-electoral fraud is being planned’: Interview with Porfirio Muñoz Ledo
March 20, 2018
Mexico’s transition to democracy has not been a linear path of progress. From the late 80’s with the split in the Revolutionary Institutional Party, to the triumph of the conservatives in 2000, to the return of the ruling party, it has been a bumpy road. There are few people who know this process as well or have played such an active role as Porfirio Muñoz Ledo.
Tillerson in Mexico
February 6, 2018
Tillerson’s visit stirred the already muddied waters of Mexican politics. It did nothing to repair the binational relationship and increased, rather than allayed fears regarding the Trump administration’s policies against Mexican migrants, the border wall, the failed drug war or possible plans to block the center-left in the upcoming elections.
Brazil: Democratic Legitimacy At Risk
February 1, 2018
A shadow has been cast over the legitimacy of the October 2018 Brazilian presidential elections.
U.S Support for Honduras’ Fraudulent Election is a Betrayal of Democracy
January 24, 2018
The Trump administration just helped steal a national presidential election right under our noses. That does not bode well for democracy—not for Honduras’, not […]
How We Handle Migrations Will Define the 21st Century
January 4, 2018
As the humanitarian crisis deepens, states debate between a model of national security and a model of human security. In many countries, racism and xenophobia take over state decision-making bodies. And tragedies multiply every day.
An Open Letter to President Juan Orlando Hernandez from Nobel Women Laureates
December 18, 2017
Nobel Women Laureates are urging the international community —the U.S. and Canadian governments in particular— to publicly denounce the violence, and join the call for a fair and transparent electoral recount with the presence of international and regional electoral observers.
Fraud in Honduras and the Future of Fair Elections
December 4, 2017
If we allow this setback in Honduras, not only will the Honduran people suffer, it will embolden anti-democratic forces around the world. With key elections coming up next year in Colombia, Brazil and Mexico, it’s vitally important not to allow the right to establish a precedent of successful fraud.
INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS DEMAND TRANSPARENCY AND RESPECT FOR THE VOTE IN HONDURAS
November 30, 2017
URGENT ACTION SIGN ON: As organizations in defense of human rights and democracy, we urgently call on the Honduran government to respect the vote and provide full transparency, credibility and legitimacy in all aspects of the vote count and elections results.