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News analysis: U.S. expands fight against Central American corruption. Will it stem immigration?


News analysis: U.S. expands fight against Central American corruption. Will it stem immigration?
By Tracy Wilkinson, Los Angeles Times
Published: July 18, 2021, 4:30pm
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WASHINGTON – The Biden administration is significantly expanding its offensive against corruption and other “root causes” of illegal immigration from Central America, but its new tactics are far from guaranteed to work any better than past failed efforts.
Officials cast the fight against corruption and “bad governance” as the most essential component in improving conditions in El Salvador, Honduras and Guatemala and probably the most difficult to win after decades of struggling democracies, control by rapacious elites and sclerotic legal institutions. ....

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