Pakistan and El Salvador are teaming up to use cryptocurrency to circumvent the usual multilateral controls on financial transactions.
Bitcoin Diplomacy
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Latin America & Caribbean
The Return of Drug War Imperialism
Trump’s priority isn’t drugs. It’s Latin American resources.
Security as Latin America’s New Political Currency
Street violence has superseded ideology in much of the region.
How Democracies Fade and Why America Should Pay Attention
Nayib Bukele is using populism to bury democracy in El Salvador. He’s not the only leader to do so.
Torture Redux
The Trump administration revives institutionalized torture.
Bukele: Does the Strongman Show Weakness When Imprisoning Critics?
The Salvadoran leader tolerates no dissent.
Musk’s Deadliest Legacy
Gutting USAID will cause millions of deaths from disease and starvation. But it’s not too late to change course.
The Conquest Never Ends
Then (the New World) and now (Israel).
Bukele’s Black Box
Thanks to outside pressure, Kilmar Abrego García got a rare chance to talk with the outside world. But thousands of Salvadoran prisoners remain cut off.
Trump and Bukele: The Few Repressing the Many
The two authoritarian leaders are joining hands to assault human rights and democratic norms.