Central American and Caribbean Countries Suffer High Inequality Levels
Last month I drew attention to the United Nations Development Programme’s Human Development Report. In the most recent edition of the report, published in March, the Caribbean reported relatively...
Biden Order Bars Asylum Claims at Mexico Border During Migrant Surges
United States President Joe Biden issued an executive order Tuesday that prevents migrants from making asylum claims at the U.S.-Mexico border at times when crossings between legal ports of...
Central America Drug Flights Fall as Traffickers Shift Methods
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Aerial cocaine interdictions have fallen sharply in Central America in the last three years, suggesting that drug traffickers are shifting their modus operandi, potentially...
US Measures Seek to Separate Public and Private Sectors in Cuba: Cuban Foreign Affairs Ministry
The measures put into force by the US Government seek to separate, artificially, the private sector from the public sector when they are both part of Cuba's economic system...
US Courts El Salvador’s President as Migration Overtakes Democracy Concerns
In 2021, the Biden administration turned down a meeting request with El Salvador's president, Nayib Bukele, on a trip to Washington, snubbing the self-proclaimed "world's coolest dictator" for fear...
U.S. imposes sanctions, and visa restrictions on Nicaragua over repression and migrant smuggling
Senior administration officials told reporters that the officials subject to visa restrictions included police and paramilitary officials, prosecutors, judges, and public higher education officials.
The United States on Wednesday imposed...
