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La Democracia (Spanish pronunciation: [la ðemoˈkɾasja]) is a town, with a population of 13,400 (2018 census), [1] and a municipality, with a population of 23,017 (2018 census), [2] in the Escuintla department of Guatemala. It is most notable for the Olmec-influenced carved stone heads from the Monte Alto culture now on display around the ...
De la démocratie en Amérique (French pronunciation: [dəla demɔkʁasi ɑ̃n‿ameˈʁik]; published in two volumes, the first in 1835 [1] and the second in 1840) [2] is a classic French work by Alexis de Tocqueville. In the book, Tocqueville examines the democratic revolution that he believed had been occurring over the previous several ...
Citizens' Movement (Spanish: Movimiento Ciudadano) is a center-left political party in Mexico. It was founded in 1999 under the name Convergence for Democracy, which was then shortened to Convergence in 2002 and changed to Citizens' Movement in 2011.
The museum is situated opposite the central park of La Democracia, which is notable for its display of large prehispanic sculptures in the potbelly style. [1] La Democracia is situated in the department of Escuintla at an altitude of 165 metres (541 ft) above mean sea level. [2] It is 92 kilometres (57 mi) from Guatemala City. [1]
The Spanish transition to democracy, known in Spain as la Transición (IPA: [la tɾansiˈθjon]; ' the Transition ') or la Transición española (' the Spanish Transition '), is a period of modern Spanish history encompassing the regime change that moved from the Francoist dictatorship to the consolidation of a parliamentary system, in the form of constitutional monarchy under Juan Carlos I.
[75] [76] The first representative national assembly in England was Simon de Montfort's Parliament in 1265. [77] [78] The emergence of petitioning is some of the earliest evidence of parliament being used as a forum to address the general grievances of ordinary people. However, the power to call parliament remained at the pleasure of the ...
¡Democracia Real YA! (DRY, Spanish for Real Democracy NOW!), also known as Plataforma Democracia Real Ya! (Real Democracy NOW Platform!), is a Spanish grassroots organization that started in March 2011 in Madrid, Spain. [1] It sparked the political movement of May 15, 2011 (15M) whose protests gained worldwide attention.
A caricature of Joseph Stalin during a pro-Allied rally in Santiago, 1943. In 1948, on the initiative of Chilean President Gabriel González Videla, the Chilean National Congress enacted the Permanent Defense of Democracy Law (Spanish: Ley de Defensa Permanente de la Democracia, Ley N° 8.987), referred to by many as the Damned Law (Ley Maldita), which outlawed the Communist Party of Chile and ...