Anti-Corruption: A Missing Element in Trump’s Latin America Policy
The administration’s decision not to enforce the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, among other choices, risks long-term damage to the region.
The Trump administration’s approach to Latin America is defined by a profound strategic contradiction. On the one hand, it has elevated counternarcotics to an almost singular priority, authorizing aggressive interdiction operations in the Caribbean and embracing a security-focused logic that, in practice, has involved the U.S. military in extrajudicial killings. On the other hand, it is simultaneously dismantling the very anti-corruption framework built over the last 50 years that attempted to prevent transnational criminal organizations from becoming so powerful in the first...
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