February 25, 2021
The Elections in El Salvador Could Make or Break Biden’s Central America Policy
President Nayib Bukele has been acting more and more like an authoritarian.
U.S. Department of State / Flickr
The small nation of El Salvador will play an outsize role in the Biden administration, as it sits at the intersection of several of the White House’s foreign policy priorities: migration, security, corruption and democracy. Just as the Trump administration’s approach to Central America encapsulated its cynicism — a Faustian bargain to protect the region’s increasingly repressive governments in exchange for their help in controlling migration — the Biden administration’s hopes are wrapped up in new promises of good governance and prosperity.
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Originally in The Washington Post.
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