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.
The world “discovers,” with an official stamp, what was already known: that growth without limits destroys life—and the real novelty is the crack it opens to change the narrative.
After Maduro’s fall, Venezuela faces the dilemma of abrupt transitions: how to prevent the end of authoritarianism from giving rise to new forms of unstable or extractive power.
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.
Extreme wealth concentration not only deepens inequality, but also threatens the very survival of democracy by turning political power into a privilege of economic elites.
