Luis Almagro, Secretary General, Organization of American States February 2, 2017 Latin America & The Liberal World Order Democracy...

Four Heroes and a Demagogue The Woodrow Wilson Center, December 5, 2016         Fidel Castro, who died on November 25, was a political tyrant who succeeded in convincing many people in the democratic world that he was actually...

Ana Rosa Quintana is Policy Analyst, Latin America and the Western Hemisphere at The Heritage Foundation’s Allison Center for Foreign Policy Studies. She leads the foundation’s efforts U.S. policy toward Latin America.  She concentrates largely...

Carl Gershman delivers the annual John B. Hurford Memorial Lecture titled, "A Strategy for Democratic Renewal" on May 17, 2016.It’s a great honor for me to give a lecture in the name of John Hurford, who was a dear friend and member of the NED Board, and he was also an American...

Please join the Americas Society/Council of the Americas, Florida International University, and the National Endowment for Democracy for an engaging, free-flowing, Davos-style conversation on the state of democracy in Latin America.As...

In an article published by World Affairs, Carl Gershman writes: Since the uprisings of the Arab Spring in 2011, an Arab Winter of authoritarian backlash has swept...

About the EventOver the past decade, illiberal powers have become emboldened and gained influence within the global arena. Leading authoritarian countries―including China, Iran, Russia, Saudi Arabia, and Venezuela―have developed new tools...

For Immediate Release April 13, 2016WASHINGTON, DC— Over the past decade, leading illiberal...

“Latin America’s New Turbulence”  A number of...

Carl Gershman's article as published in the World Affairs Journal on February 10, 2016.When President Obama and Raúl Castro announced, in December 2014, their intention to normalize relations between the United States and...