Why ‘Plan Bukele’ Does (and Doesn’t) Work
Plan Bukele does not represent a coherent set of policies and tactics, but rather a unique fusion of coincidence, brutality, and hard-nosed calculation.
Henry Ziemer
June 6, 2024
Explaining and Predicting the Impact of Latin American Leaders’ Attendance at CPAC 2024
The future of cooperation efforts between the U.S. and Latin American attendees of CPAC rely in part on who wins the 2024 U.S. presidential election, which is concerning.
Global Americans Staff
February 22, 2024
Finding a New Way Forward for U.S.-El Salvador Relations
Nayib Bukele’s imminent reelection represents an opportunity for the United States to find new—and politically viable—approaches to public security in the region.
Jeffrey Zinsmeister
February 2, 2024
Latin America’s “Voto Castigo”
The results of this year’s elections are likely to have a profound effect on the region: either strengthening democratic values or burying them under a mountain of extremism and polarization.
Beatriz Nice
February 2, 2024
A Global Americans Review of Escaping the Governance Trap
According to Shenai, El Salvador, Honduras, and Guatemala are entangled in a governance trap, which he defines as “a path-dependent equilibrium in which weak states with contested authority fail to penetrate civil society and achieve self-sustaining economic growth
Scott B. MacDonald
February 7, 2023
“I’m from the country of wonders, because I wonder where my democracy is?”
In this article, I would like to explain why I attended the Summit of the Americas, what I learned, and what my experience might mean for Hemispheric cooperation.
admin
September 20, 2022
The Emerging Gang State in El Salvador
El Salvador today is emerging as a new version of the narco-state: a gang state, in which organized crime and authoritarian rule go hand-in-hand.
admin
February 15, 2022
Xiomara Castro: An Unlikely U.S. Partner
U.S. leaders have taken exactly the right approach with the new leader of Honduras, welcoming Castro as a partner to resolve the root causes of migration.
Robert Carlson
February 3, 2022
El Salvador’s Peace Accords Mark 30 Years
El Salvador’s peace has been an imperfect one. But Bukele is mistaken if he believes that erasing the past will build a better future.
admin
January 20, 2022
USAID in Central America: Less Is Better
Policymakers argue that more aid money will reduce the incentive to emigrate, while remaining stubbornly oblivious to the fact that past money did not fulfill its promise to do the same.
Greg Weeks
January 10, 2022