Last year Latin America's largest economy suffered a record 63,880 homicides – a spiraling public security crisis for which Bolsonaro promises iron-fisted solutions such as loosening gun laws and intensifying police repression.
From their gated enclaves, members of the ruling elite will not have to worry about local law enforcement hedging on police repression, they can just hire their own "police" to do the dirty work.
Older voters may associate the Marcos name with martial law, political repression and cronyism.
This chapter in Bahrain's history was supposed to end decades of authoritarian rule, emergency law and repression of political activists.
"The government has turned to using the law for repression," said Mohammed al-Maskati, the head of the Bahrain Youth Society for Human Rights.
Based on extensive research in recently declassified Soviet archives, The Art of the Bribe offers revealing insights into the Soviet state, its system of law and repression, and everyday life during the years of postwar Stalinism.
Under growing popular pressure, Zhivkov's successors endorsed a policy of openness, pluralism, and respect for law, halted repression of the ethnic Turks, and took the first steps toward separating the Bulgarian Communist Party from the state, such as repealing its constitutional monopoly of power.
The director of the Democratic Initiatives foundation, Iryna Bekeshkina, is even more pessimistic in her commentary for Glavred: "What we'll have is worse than Belarus... Everything that is alive and moving in this country will immediately become subject to the law on repression".
"The Honduran people want to change the essence of the Constitution, and they've wanted this for a long time," says Almendares, who is also a central figure in the powerful but pacifist National Front of the Popular Resistance (FNRP), which arose in response to the military-backed coup, and the martial law and repression that followed.
"Stalinism is connected with a cult of personality, mass violations of law, with repressions and camps, and there is nothing like this in Russia," Mr. Putin said.
