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Nov 25, 2024 | 
as-coa.org | Eric Farnsworth
To take the case I know best, that is, the bilateral trade relationship with the United States. Peru shows the potential for what openness to the world can truly do. The U.S.-Peru trade promotion agreement has been in effect for some 15 years.
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Aug 6, 2024 | 
usnews.com | Joshua Kurlantzick |Eric Farnsworth
Months of escalating and deadly protests in Bangladesh brought down the country’s longest-serving prime minister, Sheikh Hasina, who resigned and left the country on Monday. Hasina had beaten back numerous previous protests in her 20 years on-and-off as prime minister, angering many Bangladeshis with her heavy-handed rule; their fury came to a head this summer.
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Aug 1, 2024 | 
as-coa.org | Eric Farnsworth
The Venezuelan people have taken risks for democracy. Those who voted for change deserve our support, writes AS/COA's Eric Farnsworth for U.S. News. If your attention is on the U.S. presidential campaign or the Paris Olympics, you’re probably missing one of the most significant political dramas in the world right now.
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Jan 24, 2024 | 
miamiherald.com | Eric Farnsworth
Finally, some good news from Nicaragua: the mid-January release to the Vatican of Bishop Rolando Alvarez and 18 others unjustly imprisoned for practicing their faith. Their exile to Rome removes a major irritant for the regime of Daniel Ortega and his wife and vice president, Rosario Murillo, whose brutal crackdown on religious freedom had unwittingly turned Alvarez into an international human rights cause celebre.
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Jan 24, 2024 | 
news.yahoo.com | Eric Farnsworth
Finally, some good news from Nicaragua: the mid-January release to the Vatican of Bishop Rolando Alvarez and 18 others unjustly imprisoned for practicing their faith. Their exile to Rome removes a major irritant for the regime of Daniel Ortega and his wife and vice president, Rosario Murillo, whose brutal crackdown on religious freedom had unwittingly turned Alvarez into an international human rights cause celebre.
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Dec 6, 2023 | 
thespectator.com | Eric Farnsworth |Peter Wood |Limor Simhony Philpott |Joanna Williams
Venezuela’s dictator Nicholas Maduro has been embarrassed. In a transparent bid to rally political support, he asked voters to demand that their government annex two-thirds of Guyana through a hastily called plebiscite. Venezuelans did overwhelmingly support the plainly one-sided poll, but turnout was small and noticeably lacking in enthusiasm.
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Dec 6, 2023 | 
spectator.co.uk | Eric Farnsworth
Text size Small Medium Large Line Spacing Compact Normal Spacious Comments Venezuela’s dictator Nicholas Maduro has been embarrassed. In a transparent bid to rally political support, he asked voters to demand that their government annex two-thirds of Guyana through a hastily called plebiscite. Venezuelans did overwhelmingly support the plainly one-sided poll, but turnout was small and noticeably lacking in enthusiasm. It was not the result the regime expected or craved as it attempted to...
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Dec 6, 2023 | 
spectator.com.au | Eric Farnsworth
Venezuela’s dictator Nicholas Maduro has been embarrassed. In a transparent bid to rally political support, he asked voters to demand that their government annex two-thirds of Guyana through a hastily called plebiscite. Venezuelans did overwhelmingly support the plainly one-sided poll, but turnout was small and noticeably lacking in enthusiasm.
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Nov 21, 2023 | 
americasquarterly.org | Eric Farnsworth
Reading Time: 3 minutesHe’s only 35 years old, and his term will last only a year and a half. But whether Daniel Noboa succeeds as Ecuador’s next president will have outsize importance for democracy in the Americas, and there are things that Washington can and should do to help him. Noboa takes office on November 23 and will serve out the rest of Guillermo Lasso’s term after that leader, besieged by low popularity and an alarming escalation in organized crime, called early elections.
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Nov 16, 2023 | 
providencemag.com | Eric Farnsworth
VIDEOEric Farnsworth’s lecture at Christianity & National Security 2023. Transcript forthcoming.
