The president’s election heralded change, but his strongman tactics suggest otherwise.
El Salvador
From a daily tracker of cases in Latin America, to podcasts and online events with public health experts, AS/COA is monitoring the novel coronavirus and its impact on the region.
The president marched into the National Assembly with armed soldiers on February 6 after a group of legislators held up funding for his national security strategy.
"In a lot of countries, these classic images of stern-faced soldiers with rifles overseeing politics had become taboo," said AS/COA's Brian Winter to The Washington Post.
A review of Juan Pablo Villalobos' The Other Side, a book for young adults on the realities of migration to the U.S.
The Trump administration seeks to stem migration through a bevy of new pacts with Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras, and Mexico.
The CICIES could be a potent tool, or just a political show.