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The profession of journalism is surrounded by multiple threats in Latin America: those from criminal organizations that operate freely; political threats, regardless of ideology; and those from power structures that try to subdue or limit a profession which, despite everything, resists being submissive.
Speaker: Javier Lafuente, Journalist, Nieman Fellow of the Nieman Foundation for Journalism, Deputy Managing Editor of El Pais.
Moderated by Steven Levitsky, Professor of Government, Harvard University; Director of the David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies.
Javier Lafuente (Santander, 1983) is a Spanish reporter. He is currently a Nieman fellow of the Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard. He works at the newspaper El País, where he is the deputy managing editor of the American edition. He specializes in Latin America and has been professionally linked to the region since 2015, when he became a correspondent in Colombia, Venezuela, and the Andean region. From there, he covered topics that have marked the region's recent history, such as the peace treaty between the government and the FARC, the decomposition of Venezuela, or Evo Morales's final years as president of Bolivia. Later, he was named chief of the Mexican office, where he is currently based. He has co-directed the special edition "Frontera Sur" alongside the newspaper El Faro, which won the Gabo prize for Best Coverage, and directed Pan-American investigations on the links between Venezuela and Mexico, which have also won prizes.
Steven Levitsky is David Rockefeller Professor of Latin American Studies and Professor of Government and Director of the David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies at Harvard. His research focuses on democratization and authoritarianism, political parties, and weak and informal institutions, with a focus on Latin America. He is co-author (with Daniel Ziblatt) of How Democracies Die, which was a New York Times Best-Seller and was published in 25 languages. He has written or edited 12 other books, including Transforming Labor-Based Parties in Latin America: Argentine Peronism in Comparative Perspective (Cambridge University Press 2003), Competitive Authoritarianism: Hybrid Regimes after the Cold War (with Lucan Way) (Cambridge University Press, 2010), Revolution and Dictatorship: The Violent Origins of Durable Authoritarianism (with Lucan Way) (Princeton University Press, 2022), and Tyranny of the Minority: Why American Democracy Reached the Breaking Point (with Daniel Ziblatt) (Crown Publishers, 2023). He and Lucan Way are currently working on a book on democratic resilience across the world.
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Presented in collaboration with the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs