As Venezuela’s presidential elections, scheduled for 2024, draw closer, the international community’s attention is primarily focused on how to use leverage to ensure minimal electoral conditions. US high-level officials have publicly said they would ease some of the economic and political sanctions imposed on the country in exchange for meaningful concessions by Nicolas Maduro’s government, and there is clearly an ongoing back channel between US and Venezuelan authorities along these lines. While this discussion is essential, it often overshadows a vital aspect of the conversation—the plan for what comes next. No transition of power is possible without a clear path forward after election day.
Si bien la Ley Renacer es un mandato del Congreso sobre una política sobre Nicaragua, no parece haber voluntad de parte de la Administración Biden para asumirla, incluso a pesar de que Biden hizo la promoción de la democracia una prioridad.
In Latin America today, traditional coups are no longer the biggest threat to liberal democracy. More perilous are democratically elected leaders who, once in power, deliberately and gradually undermine basic guarantees, such as judicial autonomy, electoral integrity, independent press work and free expression.
Las sanciones internacionales contra los actores cómplices de las atrocidades cometidas en Nicaragua han surtido el efecto de disminuir su influencia, y siguen arrinconando a los perpetradores. Contrario a las mentiras de Rosario Murillo, las sanciones no afectan al pueblo porque éstas poseen precisión en el impacto. La sanción es un es un juicio justo frente a la privación física, económica y política que ha causado la dictadura.
The growing divide between the United States and its G7 partners and an increasingly China-led Global South is concerning, especially as the United States looks to compete more effectively with China in Latin America, Africa, the Pacific, and beyond.
La confiscación de la Universidad Centroamericana de Nicaragua, la UCA, ocurre en el contexto de la conformación de la dictadura familiar Ortega-Murillio en un tipo totalitarista con rasgos de tipo Talibanesco en Nicaragua. En particular, esta crisis política de Nicaragua está dibujada por este tipo de gobierno y la fuerza que posee en la etapa en que se encuentra.
La decisión de eliminar el deslizamiento anual de uno por ciento o más de devaluación gradual del tipo de cambio es un control de precaución monetaria ante la creciente inflación asociada con un aumento de las importaciones y un mayor encarecimiento en 2024.
Despite receiving a minority of political support, the balance of power is in favor of the regime who dominates the repressive apparatus and possesses economic resources to maintain control and seek a dynastic succession. The magnitude of repression, as well as the noise of various international conflicts, render international mobilization difficult. However, the international community must confer greater importance to the Nicaraguan crisis in the global agenda.
In the context of the 53rd General Assembly of the Organization of American States, the Migrant and Refugee Children in the Americas Side Event introduced the video “Migrant Children’s Testimony”.
The UNICEF Regional Office for Latin America and the Caribbean and the Inter-American Dialogue welcome the Declaration for the Protection and Integration of Migrant and Refugee Children in the Americas, made in the context of the 53rd Regular Session of the General Assembly of the Organization of American States (OAS).
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Earlier this year, tens of thousands of Mexicans took to the streets to protest newly enacted legislation gutting the country’s highly-regarded National Electoral Institute (INE) in advance of state elections this year and presidential elections in 2024.
