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...El Salvador is “a very unique situation”, said Jorge Castañeda, a commentator and former Mexican foreign minister....
...“Perhaps what one can be clear about is that a political crisis or a crisis of democracy sooner or later results in an economic crisis,” said Ricardo Castaneda, senior economist at the think-tank Icefi....
...El Salvador at Icefi, a think-tank....
...When US agents arrested General Salvador Cienfuegos at Los Angeles international airport in October 2020 on charges of drug conspiracy and corruption, the news dropped like a bombshell across the border....
...“I don’t think they thought through all the implications,” said Ricardo Castaneda, senior economist and co-ordinator for El Salvador at Icefi, a think-tank. “It’s an experiment....
...But not for Nicaragua, Honduras, El Salvador and Guatemala.”...
...Jorge Castañeda, a former foreign minister, said: “This is the most difficult problem of López Obrador’s administration because there’s no good way out.”...
...Obrador wants to secure US aid to spur development in Central America to deter migration — something that looks a tall order from a US president who has threatened to slash aid to Honduras, Guatemala and El Salvador...
...“The Mexican moment” has, in the words of Jorge Castañeda, a former foreign minister, abruptly spiralled into “the Mexican mess”....
...Jorge Castañeda, a Mexican intellectual, identified their characteristics in a 2006 essay in Foreign Affairs....
...But Jorge Castaňeda, Mexico’s former foreign minister, argued that the strategy could have undesirable consequences....
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