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.
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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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