El Salvador’s Legacy of Impunity Hampers Its Ongoing Fight Against Corruption
Former President Mauricio Funes is the latest leader to be implicated in corruption scandals that are consuming El Salvador. In June, 32 arrest warrants were issued for Funes, who was in office from...
View ArticleFrom Argentina to El Salvador, Restrictive Abortion Laws Are a Public Health...
Earlier this month, Argentina’s Senate rejected a bill to decriminalize abortion by a vote of 38 to 31. The bill, which narrowly passed the lower Chamber of Deputies in June, would have legalized...
View ArticleWhat ‘Normalcy’ on Ortega’s Terms Looks Like in Nicaragua
Despite recent statements from President Daniel Ortega and his wife, Vice President Rosario Murillo, that things are back to “normal” after their response to what they described as an “attempted coup,”...
View ArticleThe U.S. Contributed to Central America’s Migrant Crisis. It Must Help Fix It
Late last week, the Trump administration declared in a proclamation that it would deny asylum applications to anyone who entered the country through illegal ports of entry, even though it has been...
View ArticleNicaragua’s Crisis Shows No Signs of Abating
On Monday, the Nicaraguan government announced it was implementing the very reforms that triggered widespread protests last year and led to a brutal government crackdown. A move of economic necessity,...
View ArticleBig Victory Comes With Big Expectations for El Salvador’s Young New President
SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador—In a landslide earlier this month, voters in El Salvador elected 37-year-old Nayib Bukele as the country’s next president. Bukele, who many observers described as a populist...
View ArticleBukele’s Politicization of the Military Revives Old Fears in El Salvador
In a blatant display of disregard for the country’s democratic institutions, President Nayib Bukele ordered the military to briefly occupy El Salvador’s legislature last weekend. He was apparently...
View ArticleAfter Two Years of Posturing, El Salvador’s Bukele Must Now Govern
As expected, voters in El Salvador turned out overwhelmingly for President Nayib Bukele’s party in legislative and municipal elections last Sunday. Preliminary results suggested the Nuevas Ideas party,...
View ArticleHonduras’ Presidential Election Is a Choice Between Uncertainty and Ruin
On Nov. 28, Hondurans will head to the polls for one of the most consequential elections in the country’s history. After the 2017 polls were marred by fraud and violence, voters face a stark choice...
View ArticleHonduras’ Hernandez Will Face Justice, but His Narco-State Could Live On
On Feb. 14, the U.S. Department of Justice requested the extradition of former Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernandez on drug trafficking and weapons charges. Hernandez was arrested the following...
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