In recent years, citizens so frustrated with their governments slapped their elected officials (e.g. in Nepal and India), set themselves on fire outside state offices (e.g. Tunisia, Greece), launched mass protests against specific policies (e.g. Chile, Portugal, UK) and brought down entire regimes (e.g. MENA). 2014 was not remarkably different. This year we witnessed similar anti-government sentiment expressed in some form all over the world — from the recent pro-democracy protests in Hong Kong, to the inflation-triggered backlash against President Nicolas Maduro in Venezuela and the Euromaidan protests that brought down President Viktor Yanukoyvch in Ukraine, to recurring anti-austerity protests …read more
Source: The Huffington Post
