As we round the corner into a new year, the state of journalism is under threat more than ever.
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December 10, 2018, marked 35 years since the initiation of the democratic transition in Argentina.
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Although Brazil signed the Universal Declaration of Human Rights in 1948, the country has since failed to make its principles a reality.
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The American Newspaper Group, or GDA, which includes El Universal, has released its eighth edition of a report that has named the 3 million fleeing Venezuelans as “The Latin Americans of 2018.”
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As Mexico prepares for a new presidential administration, much of the country remains in turmoil from a renewed history of tumult.
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Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega deployed more than 200 anti-riot police across multiple cities and banned “Blue and White” marches “now and always.”
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At 40 years since the beginning of the Third Wave in Latin America, democracy in the region is reaching its “mid-life crisis.”
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The successful elections of Macri as president in Argentina and of Bolsonaro in Brazil signal the rise of a new Latin America right wing that incorporates a different mix of nationalist social forces.
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Brazil’s current political instability, especially with its election of Jair Bolsonaro as president, demonstrates the challenges that occur when democracies present polarizing options.
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In October 2018, Colombian university students supported by professors and other education workers went on strike to raise awareness for the financing of higher-level education in the national budget.
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