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ight-modern-authoritarianism. 2. Daniel Lansberg•Rodriguez, in Venezuela, Political Prisoners as Pawns:New Y

and persecution. They are frequent- ly jailed on trumped-up charges of defamation, tax fraud, or drug trafficking, among others. 12 EFTA00804736 Freedom House 2. Marginalizing the opposition: As noted above, authoritarian leaders use their media power to paint critics as knaves or buffoons. Especially t

t Officer Michael Fanone, said that he would assassinate President Joe Biden if he got the chance, court documents allege. According to the article, Rodriguez allegedly made his comments on a Telegram group chat called "Patriots 45 MAGA Gang," prosecutors said in court documents. Participants in the group

s about a global "democratic recession." In maps charting freedom in the world, the various shades of authoritarianism had been spreading ominously. Freedom House has recorded an annual decline in global freedom for 15 years in a row, and less than 20 percent of the global population now lives in a country cl

tions with other regional states. Turkey similarly claimed a policy of “zero problems” with its neighbors in the period before the Syrian civil war. Freedom House's Tyler Roylance has described a “common set of concessions" that 21st-century au- thoritarians made to the prevailing democratic ethos in the wake of

ight-modern-authoritarianism. 2. Daniel Lansberg-Rodriguez, “In Venezuela, Political Prisoners as Pawns,” Ne