As the House mounts an impeachment investigation of President Trump, examples from Central and South America show that ousting an executive leader from office doesn’t always have the intended effect.
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Canada is playing a role in the life-and-death struggle for migrant justice in the United States – from our foreign economic policies to the actions of our mining companies and domestic asylum laws.
Conservative Alejandro Giammattei beat former first lady Sandra Torres with 60% of the vote. But turnout was the lowest in Guatemala’s modern history, in apparent protest of both candidates.
Why do even the rich cheat on their taxes? Roesearch suggests some people may be genetically predisposed to break the rules for their own financial gain.
The U.S. will likely continue to threaten Mexico with trade tariffs due to Central American migrants, and Mexico will respond with more drastic, inhumane measures. None of it will stop migration.
Trump has expanded and escalated the most punitive policies he inherited from his predecessors.
Maya candidate Thelma Cabrera’s unprecedented campaign for president was unsuccessful, but hope has not been dashed. Her run suggests that Guatemala’s grassroots opposition is slowly gaining ground.
Done right, aid fosters greater stability and boosts the economy. That reduces incentives to move away.
For their next president, Guatemalans must choose between two veteran politicians with shady pasts and alleged ties to organized crime.
On the eve of the 30th anniversary of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child, the human rights of child migrants rarely follow them when they cross borders.
Thousands of Central American migrants are trying to cross the U.S. southern border. One scholar followed their paths to find out why they make the dangerous, sometimes deadly, journey.
As migrant caravans become commonplace, life goes on along the frontera sur where tumultuous Central America and the poorest part of Mexico meet.
The CICIG’s investigators have highlighted corruption in the country – and its leaders don’t like it.
Central Americans who came to the US in the 1980s fleeing civil war drew on their background fighting for social justice back home to help unionize farmworkers, janitors and poultry packers in the US.
Guatemalan President Jimmy Morales is defying a constitutional court order to release a UN-backed prosecutor his government arrested and allow his corruption investigation to continue.
The psychological health of migrant children will be deeply impacted by their flight from gang violence, and the experience of crowded unhygienic conditions and tear gas at the U.S. border.
The Ixil people of Guatemala dream of the places where their dead, massacred during the country’s armed conflict might be located.
A migrant caravan of almost 7,000 people who left Guatemala and Honduras is heading north towards the United States. The reasons they are leaving are complex but involve a U.S.-backed violent history.
As the US federal government shifts toward harsher and more restrictive immigration policies, local authorities are pushing back with the “sanctuary cities” movement.
More than two-thirds of Central American migrants will experience violence on their journey through Mexico, from robbery and extortion to rape. Caravans create safety in numbers.
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Associate Professor of Political Science, The Ohio State University
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Assistant Professor of Human Security, American University School of International Service
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Associate Professor of Latin American Studies and Geography, University of Arizona
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Senior Lecturer in International Business, Birkbeck, University of London
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Assistant Professor of Sociology, University of California, Merced
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Distinguished Professor of Law, University of California College of the Law, San Francisco
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Associate Professor Human Rights & Human Diversity, Wilfrid Laurier University
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Assistant Professor of Human Service Studies, Elon University
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Profesor-Investigador, ECOSUR
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Associate Professor of Politics and International Studies, University of Regina
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Senior Lecturer in Human Rights, Constitutional Law and Legal Theory, University of Wollongong
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PhD Candidate in Development Studies, Institute for Social Development, University of the Western Cape
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Professor, Center for Research on North America, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM)
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Professor of Public Policy, University of Michigan
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Assistant Professor, University of Memphis
