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3 weeks ago | 
acleddata.com | Laura Fuentes |Maria Arocha |Tiziano Breda |Sandra Pellegrini
Argentina: Police repression against retirees triggers discontent On 12 March, police intervened in a protest in Buenos Aires over pensions using tear gas, water cannons, and pellets. This sparked violent clashes that resulted in more than a hundred demonstrators being arrested and dozens injured.
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Nov 28, 2024 | 
acleddata.com | Tiziano Breda
Since he took office in August 2022, Gustavo Petro — the first left-wing and former guerrilla president in Colombia’s history — has invested much of his political capital into ending the country’s decades-long conflict. His strategy, known as Total Peace,1 aims to enforce the 2016 peace accords signed with the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) that his predecessor, Iván Duque (2018-2022), failed to implement.
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Aug 29, 2024 | 
acleddata.com | Tiziano Breda
One month after the 28 July presidential elections, Venezuelans demonstrated at home and abroad to demand electoral authorities publish the election tally sheets.1 The protests stem from a dispute that arose when Venezuela’s government-controlled electoral authorities declared the incumbent President Nicolás Maduro the winner.
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Aug 2, 2024 | 
acleddata.com | Tiziano Breda
A disputed presidential election has rekindled Venezuela’s long-lasting political crisis,1 sparking a significant increase in demonstration events. On 28 July, electoral authorities announced they had counted 80% of ballots and that incumbent Nicolás Maduro had won with 51.2% of the vote. However, they never published the results.
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Jul 13, 2024 | 
iai.it | Tiziano Breda
Venezuela is approaching one of its most consequential elections.
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May 29, 2024 | 
acleddata.com | Maria Arocha |Tiziano Breda
It is not common to see masked men stop presidential candidates at makeshift checkpoints to deliver a message. But that is what happened to Claudia Sheinbaum, the presidential candidate for the ruling National Regeneration Movement party (MORENA), in Chiapas on 21 April.
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Feb 23, 2024 | 
acleddata.com | Tiziano Breda
Social leaders are some of the most visible victims of Colombia’s internal armed conflict. Despite a slight decrease — arguably linked to negotiations between armed groups and the government — ACLED records 227 targeted attacks against them in 2023, particularly in areas where armed groups vie for control of drug trafficking corridors and resources.
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Jan 17, 2024 | 
acleddata.com | Tiziano Breda
Mexico experienced persistently high levels of violence in 2023, driven by competition between more than 70 active armed groups vying for the control of lucrative illicit economies — including drug and human smuggling, and extortion.
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Jan 5, 2024 | 
tandfonline.com | Anna Ayuso |Marianne Riddervold |Tiziano Breda |Elsa Gunnarsdottir
ABSTRACTYears of increasingly authoritarian rule and economic mismanagement by President Nicolás Maduro have turned Venezuela into a source of regional instability. The European Union’s (EU) main foreign policy objective towards the country has been a peaceful transition to free and transparent elections and its re-introduction into regional and global trade and political frameworks.
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Jul 25, 2023 | 
worldpoliticsreview.com | Tiziano Breda
Several months ago, this country’s government imposed a state of emergency to curb violent crime. More recently, it announced its intention to build a new, remote prison to secure the most dangerous criminals. In the meantime, its security forces have taken to displaying inmates seated front to back on the ground of prison courtyards—faces down, heads shaved and legs splayed, all under the close watch of heavily armed military police officers in a brutal show of force.
