Carolina Jiménez Sandoval, president of WOLA, says that the recent Summit of the Americas failed to include a deep reflection or debate on how to curb authoritarianism. In this conversation, she reviews the features of these authoritarian models, such as the use of democratic tools to stay in power, the lack of separation of powers, and their patriarchal and anti-rights agendas. Traditional analyses, based on Cold War paradigms, have become outdated in the face of these hybrid models, says Jiménez, who stresses the need to think of new forms of participation, representation and empowerment of citizens and civil society to counteract this path that power is taking across the continent. Read Carolina's takeaways from the IX Summit of the Americas as she answers questions about the decay of democratic institutions, the rise of hybrid authoritarianism at home and abroad, and more: |
