El Salvador Security Challenges: Shaky Response So Far
By Héctor Silva Ávalos Globovisión / Flickr / CC BY-NC 2.0 After five and a half months in office, Salvadoran President Sánchez Cerén is still groping for ways to address the country’s pressing...
View ArticleCICIG: Model for Northern Triangle
By Fulton Armstrong and Héctor Silva Photo Credit: Mike Gifford and Nicolas Raymond / Flickr / Creative Commons Guatemalan President Pérez Molina’s announcement two weeks ago that he would seek another...
View ArticlePeru: The Shuffling Continues
By Eric Hershberg and Fulton Armstrong Pedro Cateriano (l) and President Humala Ollanta. Photo Credit: Galería del Ministerio de Defensa de Perú President Humala Ollanta’s new prime minister – his...
View ArticleCivics Lessons from Guatemala
By Robert Brenneman* Former Vice President of Guatemala Roxana Baldetti (l) and a protestor holding sign that proclaims “We demand justice.” Photo Credits: Surizar / Flickr / Creative Commons...
View ArticleMexico: Deepening Credibility Crisis
By Fulton Armstrong Expert Angela Buitrago during the presentation of the initial GIEI report last October. Photo Credit: Comisión Interamericana de Derechos Humanos / Flickr / Creative Commons Last...
View ArticleMexico: Repressing Organized Dissent
By Marcie Neil* A photo from the protest on June 19. Credit: LibreRed / Google / Creative Commons The Mexican government’s latest reaction to the country’s largest teachers union’s challenge to...
View ArticleMACCIH: An Early Progress Report
By Chuck Call* Juan Jiménez Mayor, Spokesman of the MACCIH Mission in Honduras, presented an update about MACCIH at the OAS in December 2016. / Juan Manuel Herrera, OAS / Flickr / Creative Commons The...
View ArticleMexico’s Teachers Between a Rock and a Hard Place
By Christian Bracho* Members of Mexico’s Coordinadora Nacional de Trabajadores de Educación (CNTE) at a mass mobilization in 2013. / Eneas De Troya / Flickr / Creative Commons Teachers in Oaxaca and...
View ArticlePeru: Challenges to the Summit of the Americas
By Fulton Armstrong Martín Vizarra’s inauguration as President of Peru on March 23, 2018. / Twitter: @prensapalacio / Creative Commons The resignation of Peruvian President Pedro Pablo Kuczynski (PPK)...
View ArticleGuatemala: Is CICIG Dead?
By Ricardo Barrientos* CICIG Commissioner Iván Velásquez (left) and Guatemalan President Jimmy Morales (right). / República / Creative Commons Guatemalan President Jimmy Morales and his political...
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