Anti-corruption: Central America becoming 'the next Afghanistan' | International Bar Association

Endemic corruption, poor governance and democratic backsliding have plagued much of Central America for decades. Since 2014, more than two million people, many of them undocumented, are estimated to have fled the so-called Northern Triangle countries of Honduras, Guatemala and El Salvador across the US border to escape corruption, violence, organised crime and poverty.

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