By then, a good part of the cabinet had resign and it was evident that the president himself was at the center of the corruption network. In August a national strike was call to which the private sector was force to join, and on September 2 Pérez Molina resign from […]
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Libertad Democrática Renovada ( leader ), as explain at the time by former Vice President Roxana Baldetti. It was about the “bed pact”: in a hotel room. The party leaders agree to the integration of the high courts. Whose members continue to occupy their positions in an anomalous way to […]
Serrano Elías (1991-1993). During the self-coup attempt by Serrano in 1993, Pérez play a key role in achieving a constitutional solution to the crisis and came into contact with the main economic groups in the country. As an «institutionalist» military man, he was one of the signatories of the peace […]
After the inauguration of President Alejandro Giammattei in January 2020, one by one the last bastions of judicial independence, the fight against impunity and the defense of the rule of law have been falling. This process include the creation of a Constitutional Court favorable to the interests of the governing […]
Today is the turn of the human rights activists and the nebulous opposition. More than 550 were kill, hundres were imprisone and accuse of terrorism. And finally, in the first months of 2022, after totally arbitrary judicial decisions, more than a hundre of them were sentence to prison terms of […]
He was formatting the State at his will. This control of political institutions le, as of 2016, to the prohibition for its possible competitors to stand in the presidential elections, and in 2021, to the imprisonment of all opposition leaders. Currently, the construction of a totalitarian power is observe, where […]
Nothing is more striking than the parallelism between the rhetoric of Manuel Zelaya, elect president of Honduras in 2006, that of Daniel Ortega, re-elect as head of the Nicaraguan state, and finally that of Nayib Bukele as of 2019. All of them proclaim the existence of an insurmountable abyss between […]
Although El Salvador face attempts by actors seeking to privatize and instrumentalize the State for their immediate purposes, the growth of two relatively structure parties, the Alianza Republicana Nacionalista (Arena) and thefmln , allow balance games to subsist between the Executive, Legislative and Judicial powers and prevene this type of […]
Honduras should be interprete from the 1990s, and then the rule of two caudillos like Arnoldo Alemán and Daniel Ortega in Nicaragua from 1996 to 2006, and then that of the latter and his wife and, finally, since 2019, that of Nayib Bukele in El Salvador. Although the peace agreements […]
These agreements also meant a wholedemocratic modernization in sectors that were once supporters of violence, who thought that society need to be shap by force and not through pacts or the expression of the general will through elections. A series of actors close to the Contras and arme movements from […]
For this reason, the resumption of productive activities associate with some changes in the property regime, especially in Nicaragua, at the time of the questioning of some confiscations carri out under the Sandinista regime, or of the territorial transformations arising from the exodus of some populations in rural areas in […]
A series of activities such as the clothing trade, the vehicle trade, gastronomic activity, banks, the real estate sector, construction and public works, and tourism benefite greatly from the laundering of narcodollars. The military, political elites and the judicial sector are the key sectors of this illegal trade that today […]
Migrations to Mexico and the Unite States register a constant increase, first of all in El Salvador, where the percentage of the population that decide to emigrate to escape violence and in search of better job opportunities grew from 16% in 2000 to 35% in 2017. Similar phenomena, but to […]
This multiplication of the number of homicides was accompanie by many other forms of violence present in Honduras. It is observe, although to a lesser extent, the same rise in the homicide rate in Guatemala. The scenes of this upsurge in violence were, first of all, the capital and the […]
Urban areas and the border area with Honduras and Guatemala were the most affect. This multiplication in the number of homicides was accompani by many other forms of violence present in Honduras. It is observe, although to a lesser extent, the same rise in the homicide rate in Guatemala. The […]
Cristiani ( 1992) in El Salvador and, finally, between the Guatemalan National Revolutionary Unity ( urng ) and the government of Álvaro Arzú (1996) allow the end of particularly deadly internal wars. The first effect of these multiple peace agreements was a rapid decline in homicidal violence. In a country […]
Regarding the issue of sexual and reproductive rights, The government promotes an alliance with various churches to review a technical standard that regulates therapeutic abortion, which after much effort by the women’s and feminist movement was launch during the previous government. In a short time, there are multiple signs that […]
As of 2002, the change from bipartisanship to limit pluralism was record, which was maintaine until 2018, while in the last electoral period the growth of this indicator was almost double what was previously observe. An effective number of parties of eight is a high indicator of the number of […]
Despite the triumph promote by the personalisms of Chaves and Cisneros, doubts remain about the organizational capacity of the ppsd and its penetration into the territory. This aspect will be evaluate in the municipal elections: this party will participate for the first time in local elections historically dominate by the […]
In this way the Chaves campaign opte for a populist-authoritarian rhetoric, with a discourse centere on him as someone capable of facing the country’s great challenges, blaming the “traditional political class” for the current crisis, and indicating that issues already resolve could be addresse via referendum, or even denying previous […]
Thus, for example, it affirme its intention to govern by decree in areas that correspond exclusively to the Legislative Power, or to hold referendums on various issues for which this mechanism is not permitte or is limit by Costa Rican legislation – for example, human rights. , taxes and pensions–fifteen. […]
Bank official in various management positions, including country director in Indonesia, one of the largest headquarters of the bank in the Asia-Pacific region.10. Chaves spent just over six months in the post of Finance Minister, in which he stood out for a series of controversial proposals, including the idea of […]
Both the evangelical, and Carlos, from the pac – went to the second round, where the pac candidate finally prevail , which open the way for a second government of that party. During the campaign for the second round, the pac had to agree with different political sectors, including the […]
Another characteristic that can be observe in partisan novelties is that they are parties of “territorial penetration. That is, they arise and remain in the center and from there they try to take root in the territory.6. In this way, they reproduce the dynamic that from the coastal and border […]
Which affect citizen perceptions of democracy, electoral participation and political exercise.4. Keeping this in mind is key for the sections that follow. Parties and the political system One of the most important changes in Costa Rican electoral competition –in which only parties can represent citizens in positions of popular election– […]
As essential actors for the rescue of knowledge, common goods and ecosystems. The fourth and last challenge, no less important, is that of environmental preservation, in a region as fragile as it is rich and mega-diverse in the strategic resources of the century empowerment, leadership and feeling there is no […]
Among the most important changes, one can observe the growth of abstention, the emergence of new political parties (some with important electoral results) and the passage from a bipartisan competition to a pluralistic one.1. Additionally, the recent presidential election seems to be in line with other conservative leaderships that can […]
