Israel Centeno examines the changes that Hugo Chávez has made to Venezuela’s government, including constitutional revisions, and wonders whether, even with a change in leadership, Venezuela can become a democratic state.
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[En Español] In this week’s Corkscrew Horacio Castellanos Moya explains the possible effects Mexico’s recent presidential election could have on the country’s future.
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Author Horacio Castellanos Moya explains the intense debate that has developed in Mexico over whether or not the Institutional Revolutionary Party’s (PRI) return to power will lead to a “restoration” of the old authoritarian order.
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In this week’s Ethiopiques exiled journalist Mesfin Negash reflects on the ways that Ethiopia – once home, sweet, home – has become “a bitter prison for the majority of Ethiopians, both at home and abroad.”
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Peter Bradley, current director of the Speakers’ Corner Trust, talks about the process of establishing a Speakers’ Corner in Nigeria, the importance of face-to-face community interaction, and the work it takes to maintain an effective democracy.
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Despite the historic victory of Aung San Suu Kyi’s National League for Democracy (NLD) party in the parliamentary elections, Burmese poet Ko Ko Thett argues that this should not be cause for over-jubilation as there is still a long road ahead for democracy to take a foothold.
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Ran Yunfei, Chinese blogger, author, and outspoken free speech advocate, was released Tuesday from a detention center in the city of Dujiangyan where he was held for almost six months.
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