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ing prob- lems in democracies—India and Indonesia among them—and in settings where democracy's prospects are unclear, as with Ecuador, Hungary, and Kenya. The growing offensive against civil society is in many respects a tribute to the prominent role that NGOs have come to play in the political life

in's victories at the polls enable him to reject comparisons with Leonid Brezhnev and other doddering defensive Soviet-era leaders. Likewise, Hugo Chavez boasted that unlike the colonels and generals who ruled over South American dictatorships during the 20th century, his tenure as president of Venez

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k Haggard in a bench trial. The story was also reported on by ABC News (11/20, Deliso), BBC (11/20, Yousif), CBS News (11/20, Czachor), CNN (11/20, Chavez), Fox News (11/20, Conklin), the Hill (11/20, Irwin), NBC News (11/20, Silva), the New York Times (11/20, Rojas), Reuters (11/20, Ax), USA TODAY (11

utin's victories at the polls enable him to reject comparisons with Leonid Brezhnev and other doddering, defensive Soviet-era leaders. Likewise, Hugo Chavez boasted that unlike the colonels and generals who ruled over South American dictatorships during the 20th century, his tenure as president of Venezue

owing prob- lems in democracies—India and Indonesia among them—and in settings where democracy’s prospects are unclear, as with Ecuador, Hungary, and Kenya. The growing offensive against civil society is in many respects a tribute to the prominent role that NGOs have come to play in the political life o