The Salvadoran president’s gang crackdown has fueled allegations of human rights abuses and erosion of democratic freedoms, but many in the region see it as a model to emulate.
Security & Defense
Nayib Bukele’s Growing List of Latin American Admirers
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Will Freeman
Q&A: Dr. Angélica Durán-Martínez on Petro’s Pitch to Shift Colombia’s Drug Policy
The political scientist covers what the Colombian leader’s proposal to decriminalize cocaine means for Latin American and U.S. ties
LatAm in Focus: What the Guacamaya Hacks Reveal about Latin American Militaries
UC San Diego’s Dr. Cecilia Farfán Méndez and Trend Micro’s Juan Pablo Castro cover the 10-terabyte hack on militaries of five Latin American countries.
AMLO’s Expansion of the Military Undermines Mexico’s Civilian Tradition
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Cecilia Farfán-Méndez, Kathleen Bruhn, Tesalia Rizzo
As Mexico’s president gives the military more and more roles, public opinion seems worryingly supportive.
Gabriel Boric Once Criticized Her. Now, She Must Turn Around His Administration.
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Nick Burns
Veteran politician Carolina Tohá, Chile’s new interior minister, faces rising crime and a government in some distress.
Is Mexico’s Security Policy Backfiring?
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Sonja Wolf
Criminal groups seem emboldened despite the militarization of security.
When Chile’s Indigenous Made the Spanish Back Down
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Jacob Sauer
Behind today’s conflict in southern Chile is a long history of resistance to outsiders, a historian writes.