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How Middle-Power Democracies Can Help Renovate Global Democracy Support
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Summary: Middle-power democracies should not tread water while waiting for the United States to address its own democratic crisis. They must help revamp global democracy support using their comparative strengths.
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Democracy is on the defensive globally. Elected governments are struggling to stand up to emboldened authoritarian rivals. The coronavirus pandemic has increased democratic backsliding. Democracies are struggling to address these international challenges in the face of the pandemic and internal pressure from their own aggrieved citizens dissatisfied with progress on issues like economic inequality and racial injustice. Global leadership on democracy issues was absent from the United States while Donald Trump was president. While some U.S. democracy programming continued in the Trump years, U
El Salvador struggles 29 years after peace accords
The civil conflict left 75,000 dead and at least 8,000 disappeared
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A woman holds flowers at the Monument to Memory and Truth during the commemoration of the 29th anniversary of the Peace Accords that put an end to El Salvador s civil conflict (1980-1992), in Gerardo Barrios Park known as Civic Square in San Salvador, on January 16, 2021. (Photo: MARVIN RECINOS / AFP)
The mural in the town of La Laguna depicts a rifle firmly planted into the ground but one that, with time, becomes a tall corn plant with a dove hovering nearby.
The mural from rifle to corn depicts what happened in this part of the Salvadoran countryside, as it evolved from a theater of war in the late 1970s and 1980s to a thriving agricultural area, after rifles and other weapons were laid to rest with the signing of peace accords in 1992.