Jared O. Bell is a former U.S. diplomat and scholar of human rights and transitional justice, dedicated to advancing global equity and systemic reform. In this article he warns of the growing use of doublespeak to twist the language of democracy and human rights into tools of repression, drawing on examples from the U.S. and abroad to show how rhetoric is being weaponized to erode freedoms.
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Stolen democracy: Nicaragua’s cautionary tale, America’s warning
Jared O. Bell is a former U.S. diplomat and scholar of human rights and transitional justice, dedicated to advancing global equity and systemic reform. In this article he warns that the U.S. is showing troubling parallels to Nicaragua’s slide into autocracy under Daniel Ortega, urging Americans to actively defend democratic institutions before it’s too late.
