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 so can we demonstrate that these rights are inviolable—irrespective of ideology—to those who intend to tear down the existing order and rebuild a totalitarian, repressive state,” writes Sabatini, a former Latin American program officer with the National Endowment for Democracy.
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