Analysis of the elections of university authorities in Venezuela.

Abstract

Democracies are no longer killed by coups d'état, but by the leaders elected by popular vote. That is why the times of democratic demise are changing, democracy no longer dies from the paw of a wild beast, but from a boa constrictor that is suffocating the system.

According to authors Steven Levitsky and Daniel Ziblatt (2018, pp 9) in their work "How Democracies Die?", they point out that currently democracy faces the incongruity of reaching authoritarianism through the electoral route, because the killers of democracy use the same democratic institutions gradually, subtly and even legally to end it. "Democracies can fail not at the hands of generals, but of elected leaders, presidents or prime ministers who subvert the very process that brought them to power."