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Trusted news agencies tracing tendencies of democratisation and autocratisation globally
Trusted news agencies tracing tendencies of democratisation and autocratisation globally
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President Daniel Ortega has already been accused of rigging recent elections in Nicaragua. Now, the authoritarian leader says the nation will not even hold a vote. Strong criticism of this came from the United Nations.
Cuban dissident Otero Alcántara spent five years in prison; his whereabouts had recently been unknown. He has now been given a jubilant welcome in Miami after only being permitted to leave Cuba to go into exile.
He served every day of his five-year sentence for nothing more than art and protest — and still isn't free. Cuba is silent. Rights groups are alarmed. What is really happening to one of the island's most prominent dissidents?
No warning, no explanation — just gone. Nearly 2,000 Nicaraguan lawyers found their licences erased from the Supreme Court's registry overnight. UN experts are calling it a purge. And it may be just the latest step in dismantling what's left of judicial independence.
A jailed father, a son running for president — and a court now keeping them apart. Brazil's Bolsonaro saga grows messier by the week: family feuds, fraud scandals, and a handwritten letter that crossed one line too many.
Nicaraguan journalists living in exile face "transnational repression" and "grave threats" by their government, with their relatives in the country subject to harassment, a press freedom organisation warns. Exile is no longer a safe refuge.
The presidential transition in Colombia, known as "empalme" is not going smoothly as president-electi de la Espriella suspends it over allegations of electoral fraud made by outgoing President Petro.
The case of imprisoned Salvadoran lawyer Ruth Lopez is drawing renewed attention as her family warns of a serious decline in her health. It adds to growing scrutiny of how President Nayib Bukele’s government is treating one of its best-known critics behind bars.
Five families are taking former Venezuelan president Nicolás Maduro to court in New York over the deaths of their sons. Their case goes far beyond individual killings. It opens a window onto the machinery of fear and violence they say defined his rule in Venezuela.
After a lengthy count of over three weeks, Keiko Fujimori has won Peru's presidential run-off election with a very slim margin of under 50,000 votes over her left-wing rival Roberto Sánchez.
Donald Trump jumped the gun a bit by congratulating Abelardo de la Espriella on his victory in Colombia's presidential election when the right-winger had an insurmountable lead with almost all the votes counted. Later progressive candidate Iván Cepeda conceded.
Conservative outsider Abelardo de la Espriella has claimed a narrow victory in Colombia's presidential runoff — but his rival is refusing to concede, challenging results from thousands of voting stations. With the official verdict still pending, the country holds its breath.
Tight margins show right-win, US-backed Abelardo de la Espriella taking the lead in the Colombian presidential elections. His leftist rival Iván Cepeda has already vowed to challenge the results on. Who will take office on August 7?
A new UN report documents how Nicaragua's government has disproportionately targeted women and LGBTIQ+ people in its crackdown following the 2018 protests. Gender, the experts conclude, has been used as an instrument of control and silencing.
