Biden’s policy reversal towards El Salvador’s ‘cool dictator’ exposes the cynical emptiness of the empire’s democratic vocation, writes Gavin O’Toole
Categories: Central America, El Salvador, North America, United States
Backtracking on Bukele
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Tag: Crime
The DEA has attacked López Obrador: should we believe it?
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It’s impossible not to read this episode as an assault by a section of the DEA on the López Obrador government, writes Carlos A Pérez Ricart
Categories: Mexico, North America, United States
Bite the bala
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Mexico has put the US in the dock over gun running that fuels cartel violence, writes Gavin O’Toole
Categories: Mexico, North America, United States
Noboa’s Faustian bargain
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The bloody fingerprints of the US and Israel are all over the security clampdown by Ecuador’s new president—posing awkward questions about the country’s spiral into violence. The LONG READ by Gavin O’Toole
Categories: Ecuador, North America, South America, United States
Bullets not hugs
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Narcostates: Civil War, Crime, and the War on Drugs in Mexico and Central America, William L Marcy, 2023, Lynne Rienner
Categories: Central America, Colombia, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, North America, South America, United States
Mexico’s bloody black hole
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Liliana’s Invincible Summer: A Sister’s Search for Justice, Cristina Rivera Garza, 2023, Bloomsbury
Categories: Mexico, North America