Once the richest country in Latin America, Venezuela is now the poorest, according to a recent survey. The Editorial Board has the latest: wapo.st/32k5cqs

While China has been pushing the limits of acceptable action, Trump has sent mixed signals, at best, writes Frida Ghitis wapo.st/3h3JqLK

From @AJWS's Rori Kramer: Mike Pompeo wants to nationalize human rights wapo.st/30vuteP

"From protests to the pandemic, the events of 2020 have fully exposed how institutionalized inequality plays out in times of crisis." Read our CEO, Regan Ralph, on the importance of dismantling inequality in responding to #COVID19 in Alliance magazine. alliancemagazine.org/blog/dismantli…

"In a free and fair election, Belarusans would likely vote for a change in leadership and a shift in their country’s orientation toward the West. Neither Lukashenko nor Moscow wants that to happen" Christian Caryl @iSANS_Belarus Vlad Kobets washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/…

The Kremlin could opt for the same tactic in next year’s polls, “winning” the vote count if not the election. But Khabarovsk may have just shown the rest of Russia what could happen afterward. washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/…

#Zimbabwe is "witnessing unprecedented abuses that may very well be worse than witnessed under Mugabe ... a sharp increase in abductions, torture and sexual abuse targeting government critics and involving security forces." aljazeera.com/news/2020/08/z… #ZimbabweanLivesMatter

Activists announced the plan: 👉Tonight, 19:00 - gathering near the Minsk City Hero Obelisk (same as yesterday) 👉Tomorrow at noon -- the National Strike begins. And only two demands of protesters: 1) Release all political prisoners 2) To conduct new and fair elections

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Imagine you wake up one morning and you're bombarded with official news calling for your kidnapping. How would you feel? This happened to me. I wrote for Washington Post Opinions about the Islamic Republic of Iran's long history of kidnappings and hostage diplomacy washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/…

Opposition candidate Svetlana Tikhanovskaya has vanished after leaving the election commission, and telling a campaign lawyer she “made a decision.” Staff can’t reach her. Not clear if she went to ground, fled, or was detained. Belarus has a habit of disappearing dissidents.

Erdogan’s crackdown on social media is nearing its end game, Turkish exiled journalist Can Dündar writes wapo.st/34fFIeQ

Also worth stressing: this was discovered, investigated, and solved—this is how the system is designed to work. This is the opposite of a failure or a fraud. This is the electoral system demonstrating its integrity.

Think about all the decidedly undemocratic places where Amnesty still manages to work. And yet conditions for it in Delhi are so hostile that it's planning on ceasing Indian operations altogether.

“Anyone like me, who publicly criticizes the military or government, may find themselves targeted by blasphemy charges — which could mean assassination”, ⁦Marvi Sirmed⁩ in ⁦Washington Post Opinions⁩ washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/…

Don’t play into Trump’s hands, @CCaryl writes. Vote in person. wapo.st/3lcQ5Fg

"Ordinary Sudanese find it incomprehensible that the United States did not delist their country immediately once they succeeded in overthrowing a terrorist-supporting dictator." washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/…

New from me Eddie Fishman and James Lamond in Washington Post Opinions "Russia is continuing to interfere in our politics today. That’s not because the sanctions have failed to achieve their purpose. It’s because Trump never intended them to work in the first place." washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/…