Rachel Schwartz

Sep 30, 2024 | ojs.uc.cl | Rachel Schwartz

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Mar 14, 2024 | journalofdemocracy.org | Mateo Jarquín |Rachel Schwartz |Kai Thaler |Manuel Meléndez-Sánchez

Of course not. But the region’s democratic hopes are fighting an uphill battle against corruption, crime, and a violent past. By Mateo Jarquín, Rachel A. Schwartz, and Kai M. ThalerMarch 2024On March 8, former Honduran president Juan Orlando Hernández was convicted in a New York court in a major drug-smuggling case.

Nov 21, 2023 | democracyparadox.com | Rachel Schwartz

Rachel Schwartz is an assistant professor of international and area studies at the University of Oklahoma. Recently, she cowrote an article with Anita Isaacs for the Journal of Democracy called, “How Guatemala Defied the Odds.” She also authored a book earlier this year called Undermining the State from Within: The Institutional Legacies of Civil War in Central America. Access Bonus Episodes on PatreonMake a one-time Donation to Democracy Paradox.

Jun 26, 2023 | democracyparadox.com | Rachel Schwartz

By Rachel A. SchwartzFor the past several years, Latin America has been in the throes of an “anti-incumbent wave,” with discontented voters seemingly tossing out the old to make way for the new. With the exception of Paraguay’s 2023 election and contests in the electoral autocracies of Nicaragua and Venezuela, every Latin American presidential election since mid-2018 has brought to power a non-incumbent.