political freedom

A power struggle for the future

July 21, 2010

Der Spiegel on the political and economic realities facing the Castro regime in its fight for survival: But the release of the dissidents could also be a message to the Europeans, who have not been entirely sure what to make of the new president since he officially assumed office in February 2008. Raul is believed to [...]

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Spread of democracy halted

December 2, 2008

The Economist Intelligence Unit has published its Democracy Index for 2008 and there’s bad news for the spread of democracy: it has come to a halt. This has been a decades-long global trend in democratisation. The dominant pattern in the past two years has been stagnation. For Cuba, EIU classifies the nation as an authoritarian [...]

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