Protests in Venezuela and Bangladesh: When do Autocrats Give Up?
In one country, the increasingly autocratic leader of fifteen years has up and left after being forced out of power by a student-led opposition. In the other country, the increasingly autocratic leader of eleven years has refused to give up power in the face of protests after he rigged recent elections to give himself a narrow victory. In the first country, Bangladesh, an interim government led by Nobel-prize winning economist Muhammad Yunus has...