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...“His intention is more power,” says Nidia Díaz, a founder of the opposition leftwing FMLN party, which Bukele represented as mayor of San Salvador....
...Into the authoritarian camp would go Nicaragua’s Ortega, along with Nicolás Maduro of Venezuela and Miguel Díaz-Canel of Cuba — and probably conservatives such as Nayib Bukele of El Salvador and Alejandro...
...Salvador Dalí, a regular, once tried to come in with his pet panther. And yes, many of these feature in the framed photos on the wall in the entrance....
...The presidents of El Salvador and Guatemala missed it for other reasons. Uruguay’s president was out of action with Covid. It all made for a subdued event....
...But not for Nicaragua, Honduras, El Salvador and Guatemala.”...
...At a press conference Salvador Illa, Spain’s health minister, urged Madrid to impose measures that he said were necessary to “take control”....
...“We are not breaking anything,” tweeted Isabel Díaz Ayuso, the head of the Madrid regional government....
...But under pressure from Washington, the conservative governments that subsequently came to power in Brazil, Ecuador, El Salvador and Bolivia expelled the Cuban teams....
...Mr Bukele, a former mayor of the capital San Salvador, surged to victory with 53 per cent of the vote....
...Most countries from El Salvador to Paraguay are today run by centrist, right-of-centre, or rightwing governments. Even the monolith that is Mexico has changed, now led by a maverick leftist....
...“The visit expresses the good state of our relations,” Díaz-Canel wrote on Twitter....
...El Salvador’s president-elect Nayib Bukele said he had not decided whether to keep relations with China, but criticised the Asian nation for being disrespectful....
...El Salvador Legislators in El Salvador are considering granting amnesty to those accused of crimes committed during the country’s brutal civil war in the 1980s....
...Quote of the week “I have no doubt that Honduras and Guatemala and El Salvador and Colombia . . . are sending [criminals] because they don’t want them in their countries....
...Why Venezuela’s opposition is finally getting it right (Americas Quarterly) ● Elliott Abrams, Trump’s pick to bring “democracy” to Venezuela, has spent his life crushing democracy (The Intercept) ● El Salvador...
...was at a 15-year low and the US designation would be a vote of confidence, even though Mr Trump announced on Monday he would withhold hundreds of millions of dollars in aid to Honduras, Guatemala and El Salvador...
...“Then a woman stopped centimetres from me and shouted with all her force, ‘Viva la Revolución’,” Ms Sanchez wrote....
...(The Guardian) Archbishop Óscar Romero becomes a saint but his death still haunts El Salvador (The New Yorker)...
...Other news Residents on both sides of the US-Mexico border seek to reconcile a rise in violence in El Salvador, Guatemala and Honduras, with a US administration that has made cracking down on legal and...
...Though El Salvador’s economy ministry enthusiastically tweeted this week that tourist revenues were up 9.5 per cent last year, Central America’s smallest country is hardly paradise....
...Brazil’s Workers’ party Gleisi Hoffman following Mr Lula da Silva’s arrest last week on corruption charges What else we’re reading Latin America’s battle against corruption, a path forward (AS/COA) Junot Díaz...
...Cuba proposed Miguel Díaz-Canel as the sole candidate to replace Raúl Castro as president on Wednesday, making him the first non-Castro to lead the socialist country since the 1959 revolution and marking...
...The petro hasn’t raised a dime (Caracas Chronicles) The origins of El Salvador’s iron fist gang crackdown (Danielle Mackey) Turning tides: Chinese cash flows into Latin America (Axios) The elder statesman...
...universe of Buenos Aires’ La Carcova shanty town, thanks to Padre Pepe, the original “slum priest” with his dishevelled hair and wonky dog collar — a suitable symbol of hope for this email, the last LatAm Viva...
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