The
authoritarian Islamist Turkish Government continues its crackdown after the
attempted military coup in the summer of 2016, with hundreds of more arrests
earlier this month and another extension of the state of emergency that permits
the government to exercise even more powers than usual. Tens of thousands of Turks have been fired or
arrested because of alleged ties to the coup plotters. The crackdown has given the excuse to the
increasingly authoritarian Turkish President to quash all dissent.
There have
been deadly protests over the last several days against the Nicaraguan government’s
insurance policies. The Marxist Sandinista
regime had been dictators who took power in 1979 until they lost an election at
the end of the Cold War. They returned
to power in the 2010s by winning elections, but, as I have posted previously,
they have been somewhat authoritarian, inspired by the socialist revolution of
the late Venezuelan Dictator Hugo Chavez.
Chavez was elected President of Venezuela, but became authoritarian, as
his Socialist successor.
There were
more protests over the weekend against the increasingly “illiberal” government
since the election a week ago that the democratic opposition regarded as not
totally free and fair. In Eastern
Europe, as in Latin America and Turkey ,
there has been a trend towards authoritarianism. In addition to the Russian
Federation , the former Soviet satellites of Hungary , Poland
and the Czech Republic
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