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Polling as the most popular leader in Latin America -- possibly even the world -- El Salvador's Nayib Bukele has inspired calls for hard-handed tactics across a region tired of violence and losing faith in democracy.
Polling as the most popular leader in Latin America -- possibly even the world -- El Salvador's Nayib Bukele has inspired calls for hard-handed tactics across a region tired of violence and losing faith in democracy.Last year, only 48 percent of Latin Americans said they believed democracy was the best form of government, according to the Latinobarometro polling agency, based in Chile.
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Second referendum in 15 months on new constitution, to be held this weekend, unlikely to heal deep divisions
Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch, Committee to Protect Journalists and similar NGOs under the garb of “protecting human rights” or rights of
While leaders around the world remember Henry Kissinger fondly and praise him as a brilliant, hard-driving US statesman, the silence from Latin America is deafening."For Kissinger, Latin America was a piece on the global geostrategic chessboard.