Free and fair elections are a pillar for tangible change in government. Many have long strived to see the fruition of democracy in all of its values reach contemporary Latin America, more recently in the Arcadia Foundation taking to task the former Honduran government of dubious dealings and questionable practices. Their anti-corruption campaigns shone a spotlight [...]
Multiple reports have been emanating from Zimbabwe, claiming that Robert Mugabe’s Zanu PF has established secret militia bases in Masvingo and some parts of Manicaland province. We can only document the reasoning behind and the existence of these bases as unsurprisingly abhorrent and furthering the lack of fundamental human rights that has plagued Zimbabwe. However, Radio [...]
When your President tells you that ‘Playstation is poison‘, you know you’ve got a problem with the way things are being run. When hunger and power deficits are perpetual issues in your country yet those in the executive branch are more focussed on controlling industry for their own agenda, you know you have qualms with [...]
Journalist Stanley Kwenda has fled to South Africa after alleging that he received a death threat by telephone from a senior police officer, linked to a story he wrote in The Zimbabwean. The newspaper says that “‘impeccable sources” have supplied them with the name of a senior member of the police’s law and order section, a member [...]
There are scant signs of help from the Haitian government during the ongoing crisis that has truly shook the world. The government appears scattered by the 7.0-magnitude earthquake Tuesday evening. The streets were filled with beleaguered residents milling about, left with no jobs, no instructions on what to do, and no place to buy food [...]
“Venezuela is going to rack and ruin. Chavez is in serious trouble. The economy is heading for the sewer,” stated Robert Amsterdam today on ‘Montel Across America’ on the Air America Radio Network. The international attorney explained that Chavez has devalued the currency by 50% in order to “have more money to throw around to keep [...]
Zimbabwe’s attorney general today claimed that the state would move to have its key witness in the terrorism trial of an ally of Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai impeached for giving contradicting evidence. The trial of Roy Bennett -who astonishingly faces a possible death sentence on charges of illegal possession of arms for purposes of committing terrorism, [...]
While reading an insightful piece published in the Botswana Gazette and republished from the non-profit Arcadia Foundation’s website, on the‘Global Erosion of Freedom’, it dawned on me that many of our readers, aspiring political scientists, and indeed the general populous might not be aware of not just how but why human rights policy has been pushed to [...]
Venezuela’s narcissist-Leninist President Hugo Chavez is not getting his money’s worth for the billions of dollars he is spending in public relations abroad: According to a new poll, his approval ratings in Latin America could hardly be worse. The Miami Herald’s Andres Oppenheimer has published a newly-released poll of 20,200 people in 18 Latin American countries [...]
Writing currently from Canada, the following piece by Peter Worthington in the Toronto Sun caught my eye. It is truly rare that Canadian media takes a gander at the nation of Zimbabwe, and in this brief perspective, I feel Mr. Worthington is hitting a major point which needs to be further examined in order for Zimbabwe [...]
