Oppression
continues in Turkey ,
even after the lifting of the state of emergency, now that the Islamist
authoritarian President has assumed greater constitutional powers a few weeks ago, as several
hundred Turks were arrested for alleged ties to the attempted military coup two
years ago. Tens of thousands across a
broad swath of Turkish society have been sacked or arrested.
There have
been more anti-corruption protests this week against Russian Federation tyrant Vladimir
Putin and his authoritarian and kleptocratic regime.
Deadly
protests continue in Nicaragua
against the authoritarian Marxist Sandinista regime.
Both Cambodia and Zimbabwe held elections this week
that were not entirely free and fair. As
expected, the ruling leftist authoritarians prevailed. Zimbabwe ’s were the first since the
ouster by his own socialist party of longtime dictator Robert Mugabe. Cambodia
and Zimbabwe
are examples of how authoritarian regimes use elections to try to obtain
legitimacy.
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