The growing concentration of power around Horacio Cartes has reignited the debate over the independence of Paraguay’s institutions and the need to renew the country’s political leadership.
The regime’s isolation has relegated Nicaragua to a position of growing international irrelevance, weakening its capacity for influence and its integration into regional dynamics.
The report warns that global democracy is experiencing a historic setback, in which elections no longer guarantee democratic systems in the face of the sustained advance of autocratization.
In a world that is reorganizing itself beyond the bounds of rules and oversight, democracies face the urgent challenge of resisting the advance of authoritarian leadership without renouncing their own limits.
El Salvador is experiencing the collapse of its post-war democratic system, while Bukele concentrates power under an authoritarian model legitimized by the promise of security.
The accelerated authoritarian drift of the United States under the Trump administration poses serious risks to democracy and stability throughout Latin America.
