Ana Quintana is a senior policy analyst for Latin America and the Western Hemisphere in The Heritage Foundation’s Allison Center for Foreign Policy Studies.
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Mexican police officers were arrested last week and charged in the killing of more than a dozen Guatemalan migrants on the way to the United… Read More
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Earlier this week, the Trump administration designated Cuba as a state sponsor of terrorism. Despite critics claiming this was a politically motivated policy, the facts… Read More
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A recently revealed memo from the president of Mexico, written by Mexican officials, highlights a deepening of statist economic policy in that country. Mexican President… Read More
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President Donald Trump nonchalantly tweeted, “Miami Cubans gave me the highly honored Bay of Pigs Award for all I have done for our great Cuban… Read More
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Bipartisanship might be rare in the halls of Congress, but the U.S.-Colombia relationship defies that stereotype. For decades, policymakers on both sides of the aisle… Read More
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President Donald Trump hosted his Mexican counterpart at the White House on July 8 to celebrate the entry into force of the new United States-Mexico-Canada… Read More
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According to media reports, President Donald Trump recently stated he would consider meeting with the illegitimate leader of Venezuela, Nicolas Maduro. Specifically, the president stated:… Read More
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In mid-March, President Nayib Bukele of El Salvador closed his country’s borders to foreigners. At that point, his country had zero confirmed cases of COVID-19,… Read More
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In the early hours of Aug. 29, Ivan Marquez and other leaders of the demobilized terrorist group known as the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia… Read More
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Nayib Bukele, El Salvador’s new president, has his work cut out for him. He has pledged to lift the economy, reduce outward migration, reverse his… Read More
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After a week of negotiations, the U.S. and Mexico came to a landmark deal on addressing the Central American migration crisis. If implemented correctly, it… Read More
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Crisis-level flows of Central American migrants to the U.S. has the White House raising questions about the effectiveness of foreign assistance to the region and… Read More
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The Trump administration on Monday took the historic step of implementing Cuba sanctions. Specifically, the administration is temporarily permitting U.S. citizens whose property was stolen… Read More
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Univision news anchor Jorge Ramos and his team were detained in the presidential palace of Nicolas Maduro in Venezuela on Monday evening. After Ramos inquired… Read More
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Many on the left have for years cheered Venezuelan dictator Nicolas Maduro and his predecessor, Hugo Chavez, as heroes of “21st-century socialism.” Ironically, however, the… Read More
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On Thursday, Nicolas Maduro will be sworn in for his second term as Venezuela’s president, but the election was anything but free and fair. Opposition politicians were… Read More
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For the second time this year, a caravan of migrants is making its way through Mexico toward the U.S. southern border. President Donald Trump has… Read More
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A conservative candidate who has been dubbed “Brazil’s Trump” is poised to be elected the South American nation’s next president when Brazilians go to the… Read More
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For the second time this year, a caravan of Central American migrants is headed to the United States. The group took off from San Pedro… Read More
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Earlier this month, the Catholic Church of Divine Mercy in Managua, Nicaragua, was under siege. For 15 hours on July 13, government-sponsored paramilitaries opened fire… Read More
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In a recent poll, residents of El Salvador were asked, “Who runs your country?” Forty-two percent reported gangs, while only 12 percent said the government…. Read More
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On Sunday, Mexico is set to hold elections for the presidency and roughly 3,000 other federal, state, and local offices. Not even the politicians running… Read More
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Since April 18, the largest protests in decades have engulfed many parts of the small Central American country of Nicaragua. Hundreds of thousands of demonstrators… Read More
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A hostage crisis in Ecuador recently came to a tragic end. Two Ecuadorean journalists and their driver being held hostage were killed by their captors… Read More
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For the first time since 1959, on Thursday someone with a last name other than Castro became president of the island nation. However, as Heritage… Read More
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Over the Easter weekend, news broke about a caravan of Central American migrants heading for the U.S. Led by Pueblo Sin Fronteras, the group of… Read More
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Over the weekend, the Castro regime held yet another unfree and unfair election. Only Communist Party officials were allowed to run, international observers were banned,… Read More
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Secretary of State Rex Tillerson just wrapped up a multinational journey of Latin America and, by all accounts, the trip was a resounding success. Oddly… Read More
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A recent investigation conducted by the Associated Press discovered that Jose David Aguilar Moran, Honduras’ police chief, personally supported narcotrafficking by freeing a cocaine seizure… Read More
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Earlier this month, Nicaragua held local elections for the country’s 153 mayoral seats. The ruling leftist National Liberation Sandinista Front won 135 of the seats,… Read More
