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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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
