Getting the Insight Out
Mexico’s gender parity laws have achieved numerical equality in political positions, but they have not ensured true political power or autonomy for women. Assessing Mexico’s top-down reforms against a bottom-up model like Sweden’s illustrates how real empowerment depends on political culture, not quotas alone.
Democratic collapse is not always sudden. While a coup d’état is a clear break, democracies can be subtly dismantled through processes that erode their foundational elements. Citizens often fail to recognize a state’s descent into fascism—a political movement defined by militarism and the suppression of individual rights—until they have lost the democratic power to counter it.
Morocco’s Gen Z is reigniting the legacy of the Arab Spring, using platforms like Discord and TikTok to organize protests and demand reform, proving that digital resistance continues to evolve.