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How the Biden administration can address the situation at the border Central Americansâ lack of confidence in their governments and Americansâ lack of trust in their immigration system have dragged on far too long. But hope is not lost. By Ali Noorani and Kurt Ver BeekUpdated April 13, 2021, 2 hours ago Email to a Friend Central American migrants moving toward the United States are seen near the US-Mexico border fence in Playas de Tijuana, Mexico, in 2018.GUILLERMO ARIAS/AFP via Getty Images Many Central Americans have lost confidence in their governments, leading them to migrate north to what they hope is a better future for them and their children in the United States. At the same time, many Americans do not have confidence
COVID-19 Recovery in Latin America and the Caribbean: A Partnership Strategy for the Biden Administration In-Depth Research & Reports by Jason Marczak and Cristina Guevara Foreword From Mexico City to Manaus, the COVID-19 pandemic has ravaged communities throughout Latin America and the Caribbean. In March 2020, families in Guayaquil searched for coffins to bury their loved ones. In April and May, Venezuelans who had fled the Maduro dictatorship were forced to return home after having lost their jobs in neighboring countries. As someone who has spent fifteen years in Congress advocating for the United States to work more closely with our friends in Latin America and the Caribbean, I was deeply saddened as this region became an epicenter of the COVID-19 pandemic.
March 10, 2021 During the past few decades, many countries in Latin America have confronted the impact of systemic corruption on rule of law, business, social cohesion, and citizen security. Amid weakened institutional capacities, endemic corruption persists as a foremost challenge in the countries of the Northern Triangle—Guatemala, Honduras, and El Salvador. Those three countries were ranked 101, 116, and 84 respectively among 128 countries examined in the World Justice Program’s Rule of Law Index, and they also share some of the lowest rankings on Transparency International’s 2020 Corruption Perception Index, where their respective ranks were 149, 157, and 104 out of 180 countries. In Honduras, for example, 28 percent of surveyed public service users reported paying a bribe in the last year and 54 percent of people thought corruption had increased in the same time frame. Pervasive corruption comes at a high cost, with estimates that in El Salvador alone, $1.5 billion is lost annually to corrupt activities. High levels of corruption and a weak rule of law have allowed organized crime, driven by drug trafficking to the United States, to thrive in the region. The three countries lose more than 3 percent of their GDP to organized crime. Over the last decade, rates of violence have decreased partially because of judicial and police reforms and community-targeted programming. However, the countries of the Northern Triangle still have some of the highest murder rates in the world.
How Honduras Complicates Biden’s Policy Reset in Central America The longtime U.S. partner will test the administration’s anti-corruption push. Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernández in an interview in January.ORLANDO SIERRA/AFP via Getty Images A U.S. Justice Department (DOJ) investigation of a sitting president would usually come as something of a bombshell. But when news broke on Feb. 8 that federal prosecutors had begun investigating Honduras’ President Juan Orlando Hernández, it came as more of a formality. Hernández, or JOH, had already been implicated or directly accused of involvement in drug trafficking by U.S. prosecutors in multiple court filings over the last several years — he had just made news for allegedly having said he wanted to “shove the drugs right up the noses of the gringos.”
For the past decade, Mexico and the Northern Triangle countries of Central America – El Salvador, Guatemala and Honduras – have been among the world’s most violent nations. Organised crime and vigilante “self-defence” groups have engaged in bloody battles to control illicit markets, chiefly but not exclusively the drug trade and extortion rackets. Authorities have responded by relying heavily on military force, leading in certain cases to extrajudicial executions and other abuses perpetrated by state security personnel. With the exception of El Salvador, violence across the region continued at high levels in 2020 as criminals quickly adapted to the changes wrought by COVID-19, tightening their grip upon local economies, politics and people. The economic devastation caused by the pandemic and two hurricanes is likely to exacerbate the conditions that make the region’s ground so fertile for drug cartels and gangs: poverty, unemployment and social exclusion, as well as state corruption.
Breaking the cycle of violence in Mexico and Central America - Mexico reliefweb.int - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from reliefweb.int Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Introduction Few of us will look back fondly at 2020. COVID-19 has killed millions, destroyed the lives and livelihoods of millions more, and triggered the worst global economic crisis since World War II. At the same time, few protagonists of the world’s deadliest wars saw reason to stop fighting each other to battle the virus. Indeed, in Afghanistan, despite peace talks, in Yemen, the Sahel and Somalia, violence and human suffering continued apace. The latter part of the year saw wars reignite in Nagorno-Karabakh and the Central African Republic. A new conflict in Ethiopia’s northern Tigray region grinds on, this one especially troubling due not only to its human toll but the risk of spillover.