By Michael Allen on January 7, 2010
What’s so sinister about a Cuban citizen receiving or having a laptop or a cell phone?, asks Christopher Sabatini, senior director of policy at the Americas Society/Council of the Americas, and former director for Latin America at the National Endowment for Democracy.
“Nothing — unless the government is maintaining a chokehold on power by holding [read full story]
Posted in Christopher Sabatini, Cuba, Democracy assistance, European Union, Human rights, Labour/labor unions, NGOs/Civil society, National Endowment for Democracy, communist regimes, democracy support, dissidents, engagement, promoting democracy |
By Michael Allen on November 24, 2009
The National Democratic Institute will deploy 20 international experts to conduct an impartial assessment of the November 29 election in Honduras. The international monitoring mission “presents special challenges”, NDI concedes, “given the sharp divisions within the country and between Honduras and the international community” since President Manuel Zelaya was deposed on June 28.
The long-running crisis [read full story]
Posted in Christopher Sabatini, Democracy assistance, Elections, Featured, Honduras, Honduras coup, Latin America and the Carribean, National Democratic Institute, National Endowment for Democracy, backsliding, coup in Honduras, democracy promotion, democracy support, promoting democracy |
By Michael Allen on October 8, 2009
What explains the prevailing cognitive and moral dissonance over Latin American democracy in discussions of Venezuela and Honduras?
Chris Sabatini invokes the late Jeanne Kirkpatrick’s celebrated discussion of Dictatorships and Double Standards to argue that “we should be equally intolerant of violations of democratic and human rights” whatever the political orientation of the regime.
“Only by doing [read full story]
Posted in Christopher Sabatini, Honduras, Honduras coup, Latin America and the Carribean, National Endowment for Democracy, Venezuela, authoritarianism, coup in Honduras |
By Michael Allen on June 30, 2009
As democratic states and non-governmental groups alike condemned the coup in Honduras, ousted president Manuel Zelaya insists that he will return to Tegucigalpa on Thursday, accompanied by Latin American dignitaries, including Jose Miguel Insulza, the head of the Organization of American States. Honduras may be expelled from the OAS at its emergency meeting today.
Pro-Zelaya demonstrators [read full story]
Posted in Christopher Sabatini, Democracy assistance, Honduras, Honduras coup, Inter-American Democratic Charter, Labour/labor unions, Manuel Zelaya, National Endowment for Democracy, Organization of American States, authoritarianism, coup in Honduras, democracy promotion, promoting democracy, protests | Tagged a coup or a counter coup, Christopher Sabatini, coup in Honduras, creeping coups, Honduras, Honduras coup, Inter-American Democratic Charter, Manuel Zelaya, National Endowment for Democracy, President Barack Obama, Robert Amsterdam, tropical gulag |
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