Q&A: How Chile’s Democratic Institutions Hold Strong
Colombina Schaeffer, the director of Fundación Ciudadanía Inteligente, a regional NGO, explains Chile's civic strength.
This article is adapted from AQ's special report on the Trump Doctrine AQ: What are the biggest threats to democracy in the region over the next five to 10 years CS: I think there is a global threat: the distance between people and those who govern them, which creates distrust. We are living in a super-accelerated world. We feel crises of every kind—economic, environmental, etc.—and the permanent bombardment of information opens space for the emergence and consolidation of dangerous authoritarianism. AQ: This is happening worldwide, but Chile still appears to maintain a...
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