Fully one-third of the nations of the world today have been consistently run by electoral autocracies, including countries as geopolitically significant as Russia, Egypt, Venezuela, Turkey, Pakistan, Malaysia and Nigeria, Matovski noted. “By mimicking democracy – allowing multiparty elections, oppositions and somewhat free markets and media – they quite literally kept authoritarianism alive in most places across the world, effectively extending the average life of dictatorships to over 20 years,” he said. “And they turned out to be the most effective way to subvert existing democracies.” By Matthew Schehl. Full Text -> DViDS

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Hoy en día, un tercio de las naciones del mundo han estado dirigidas por autocracias electorales, incluidos países tan importantes desde el punto de vista geopolítico como Rusia, Egipto, Venezuela, Turquía, Pakistán, Malasia y Nigeria, señaló Matovski. “Al imitar la democracia, permitiendo elecciones multipartidistas, oposiciones y mercados y medios algo libres, literalmente mantuvieron vivo el autoritarismo en la mayoría de los lugares del mundo, extendiendo efectivamente la vida promedio de las dictaduras a más de 20 años”, dijo. “Y resultaron ser la forma más efectiva de subvertir las democracias existentes”

Take Venezuela, for example. There, President Nicolás Maduro has been in power since 2013, and mass protests against his government began in 2015. In a series of damning reports, the United Nations has characterized the Maduro regime’s killing and imprisonment of protesters as “crimes against humanity.” Many countries have imposed increasingly harsh sanctions on Venezuela over many years. By Shelley Inglis. Full Text -> TheConversation