Fidel Castro called on the late President Hugo Chávez to stop holding elections, according to a recording of a telephone conversation between a pro-government TV host and a senior Cuban intelligence officer. The TV anchorman agrees with the former …

Bolivia’s expulsion of the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) this month is a troubling development on its own, but when viewed in the context of similar actions by other governments, it raises questions about the future of American foreign …

“I’m a trouble maker. I’ve been one all my life,” Laura Alonso told Lillian Cunningham:

Alonso, an outspoken congresswoman in Argentina representing Buenos Aires, ….. took office in December 2009, after years of working as an activist for …

During the recent presidential election campaign, Nicolás Maduro, the acting president and the person anointed by Chávez as his heir benefited from a constant presence in the media, writes the Carnegie Endowment’s Moisés Naím (left), while the visibility and …

With the death of Hugo Chávez, Chávismo has lost its supremacy in Venezuela, writes analyst Raúl Lotitto

It does not matter that so-called Chávistas still control parliament, 17 of 23 provincial governments, and all key state institutions, including the …

Are democracy assistance practitioners being outflanked and outmaneuvered by their democracy prevention counterparts? Venezuela’s recent presidential poll provides disturbing evidence of adaptive authoritarianism applied to the electoral process.

“As the facts behind Nicolás Maduro’s fabricated electoral ‘victory’ on April …

“A thriving underground social media network is challenging the Communist government’s grip on power and information in Cuba and beginning to bring change, a leading dissident said on Thursday,” Reuters reports:

“There is a network of clandestine information, the …

Venezuela’s opposition will legally contest last month’s presidential poll results and press the government to hold a new presidential poll, said its leader Henrique Capriles.

“An appeal will be lodged with the Supreme Court of Justice so as to exhaust …

A network of domestic and exiled Cubans will facilitate the island’s transition to democracy, says a leading dissident.

“The table is set,” he said, for opposition groups to “try to find the cracks in the system” and ease Cuba toward …

“The leader of Cuba’s dissident Ladies in White today called for maintaining the U.S. trade embargo and limiting travel to the island until the Raúl Castro government respects human rights,” The Miami Herald reports:

Berta Soler acknowledged …