Tag: democracy

• Thursday, December 2nd 2021 - 09:32 UTC

  Peru highlights OAS' role defending democracy in the region

  

  Peru's Foreign Minister Óscar Maúrtua and Organization of American States (OAS) Secretary-General Luis Almagro Wednesday signed bilateral agreements at Lima's Torre Tagle Palace.

• Thursday, November 25th 2021 - 09:35 UTC

  Backsliding democracies challenged as world becomes more authoritarian, IDEA report

  

  The world is becoming more authoritarian as autocratic regimes become even more brazen in their repression. Many democratic governments are backsliding and are adopting authoritarian tactics by restricting free speech and weakening the rule of law, a trend exacerbated by the Covid-19 pandemic.

• Monday, September 20th 2021 - 09:10 UTC

  Brazilian Justice calls on citizens to defend besieged democracy and freedom

  

  The Brazilian president of the Electoral Superior Tribunal, (TSE), Luis Roberto Barroso said that populism, extremism and authoritarianism have democracy under attack in the world, and it is essential the participation of the whole population to preserve the essence of freedom.

• Wednesday, March 17th 2021 - 08:55 UTC

  UK's overhaul of foreign and defense policy: Democracy is in retreat around the world, Minister Raab

  

  Democracy is in retreat around the world, British foreign minister Dominic Raab will warn on Wednesday in a speech setting out the danger that autocratic regimes pose to global stability and prosperity.

• Friday, February 5th 2021 - 08:42 UTC

  Uruguay, one the very few “full democracies” in the world, The Economist

  

  Uruguay leads as one of four full democracies in the Americas, according to the Democracy Index 2020, published by The Economist. Uruguay scored 8,61 points out of a possible 10 and ranked fifteenth at world level, while the other “full” democracies in the region are Costa Rica, 8,16; Chile, 8,28 and Canada with 9,24 points.

• Tuesday, October 20th 2020 - 09:49 UTC

  Millennials more disillusioned with democracy than previous generations, Cambridge study

  

  Young people are less satisfied with democracy and more disillusioned than at any other time in the past century, especially in Europe, North America, Africa and Australia, a study by the University of Cambridge has found.

• Monday, June 29th 2020 - 10:29 UTC

  Massive support in Brazil for democracy, and only 10% for a military dictatorship

  

  Some 75% of Brazilians support the country's current democracy, a poll by Datafolha released on Sunday showed, while just 10% of citizens support a dictatorship, the highest and lowest levels of support for the two forms of government in at least 30 years.

• Wednesday, June 17th 2020 - 12:19 UTC

  Brazilian federal police raids and arrests Bolsonaro followers for funding “anti democratic” activities

  

  Brazilian federal police have raided supporters of Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro accused by prosecutors of funding “anti-democratic” activities. The raids follow the arrest of an affiliated far-right activist.

• Tuesday, June 16th 2020 - 08:45 UTC

  Bolsonaro again challenges Supreme Court: military will not remove a democratically elected president

  

  Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro said on Monday that the country’s military would not obey any order to remove an elected president, deepening a war of words with the judicial branch that has led to fears of threats to democracy in the country.

• Tuesday, March 17th 2020 - 08:20 UTC

  Beijing furious with Vargas Llosa for saying combating the coronavirus outbreak would be different if China was a democracy

  

  China hit out on Monday at Peru's Nobel literature laureate Mario Vargas Llosa for allegedly expressing “irresponsible and prejudiced opinions” over the origins of the coronavirus pandemic.