Corruption, not gang warfare, is the root cause of the record violence in El Salvador, Honduras and Guatemala. Until public officials stop shielding criminal groups like MS-13, lawlessness will reign.
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What happens when outsiders step in with good intentions? As the crisis in Guatemala shows, it’s complicated.
Joint border security measures between the US and Mexico have created a tough situation for those who fled violence back home decades ago.
Ousting an executive leader from office doesn’t always have the intended effect, as these examples from Central and South America show.
Despite Trump’s rhetoric, Mexicans are no longer crossing the border in massive numbers. Data show a new group of migrants is arriving, and for very different reasons.
Young people from Central America continue to cross the U.S. border. Can programs funded by humanitarian assistance targeting root causes of migration help?
Who is responsible when 43 girls burn to death in a state-run children’s home?
Three stories show how today’s deportations are reminiscent of what immigrants experienced during immigration raids under President Obama.
As obesity has become a health concern globally, weight loss information has proliferated – with questionable effects on its prevalence.
Mega development projects can have a positive impact. But there are risks. Between 2004 and 2013, some 3.4 million people were ‘physically and economically displaced’ by World Bank projects alone.
Latin America suddenly seems to be lurching to the right – but was it ever that far left in the first place?
With anti-corruption feeling at an all-time high, a populist comedian has swept to power in Guatemala, while Brazil’s president is facing furious calls for impeachment.
Two Central American democracies are in turmoil – but don’t call it a revolution.
Constitutional recognition may have very limited impact if the groups benefiting from the change lack the political weight to leverage it into greater social change.
The spectacular arrival of thousands of unaccompanied Central American children at the southern frontier of the US over the last three years has provoked a frenzied response. President Obama calls the…
Between 2003 and 2011, 8,000 to 40,000 unaccompanied migrant children from Central America were stopped every year on the southern border of the US. When this number boomed to more than 57,000 during the…
Principais colaboradores
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Associate Professor of Political Science, The Ohio State University
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Senior Lecturer in International Business, Birkbeck, University of London
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Associate Professor of Latin American Studies and Geography, University of Arizona
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Assistant Professor of Sociology, University of California, Merced
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Assistant Professor of Human Security, American University School of International Service
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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
