ksuadminFebruary 15, 2021 36
In 2019, the Trump administration pressured Honduras, Guatemala and El Salvador to strike bilateral deals to launder the deportation of those seeking protection from US authorities.
Under the false premise that they would be eligible for international protection, the agreements laid the groundwork for the transfer of migrants to one of these countries, pending the resolution of their cases.
The agreement was a resounding failure and Guatemala is the only country where it has been implemented. In the few months of its implementation, the United States returned nearly 900 asylum seekers to the country. However, given the risks migrants faced while waiting, more than 95% were forced to return to the country of origin from which they had fled for their lives.
ksuadminFebruary 13, 2021 47
The Presidents of Mexico and the United States had their first telephone conversation on January 23. According to press reports, Joe Biden started the dialogue by pointing out with amusement that he was not Donald Trump, to which Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) seriously replied that he had a great relationship with the former president and tycoon of New York.
The anecdote confirms what we already knew: AMLO was a secret Trumpist in the US election. Some explain the tabasqueño’s affinity with Trump, pointing out that they are political soul mates. They are not wrong. Both are populists, demagogues, rioters and despise science and intellectual elites.
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Populism is a global socio-political phenomenon and its emotional and debilitating nature of liberal democracy is one of its hallmarks. Personalist leaders around the world have attempted to weaken counter-majority institutions in order to exercise unhindered political power. Will the 21st century be marked by the steady rise of populist governments or will they have some kind of limit?
Pierre Rosanvallon’s recent publication, “The Century of Populism” (Ediciones Manantial, 2020), helps us understand the different characteristics of populist leaders – left and right – in the 21st century around the world.
This, through the approach of an anatomy of populist political culture with the identification of five elements that constitute it: the conception of the people, the theory of democracy, the modality of representation, the politics and the philosophy of economy and a regime of passions and emotions.
ksuadminJanuary 29, 2021
Central America is at a breaking point.
The region is faced with a multiplicity of crises which make it even more vulnerable, despite the extreme fragility it has known for three decades.
The pandemic has increased inequalities as well as poverty and extreme poverty (from 33.7% to 40.2% in Nicaragua and from 7.4% to 11.9% in El Salvador, respectively) and exacerbated structural weakness national economies.
According to a report by the Executive Secretariat of ECLAC, regional GDP contracted by 6.2% in 2020. Historically, the structural realities of socio-economic inequalities have coincided with fragile and even collapsing states. and produced high levels of violence.
In this context, a different issue has emerged on the agenda: proof of the climate emergency in Central America. With two hurricanes, Eta (November 13-14) and Iota (November 17-18), the region is feeling the effects of climate change.