Latin America
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As the United States gears up for the drug trafficking trial of Honduran ex-President Juan Orlando Hernández, prosecutors face the diplomatic paradox of presenting evidence showing their government stayed friendly with a leader that it knew was corrupt… Read this piece in its entirety at InSight Crime.
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I made a YouTube short for InSight Crime talking about why gang violence is exploding in Ecuador as the government declares a state of internal armed conflict. You can watch here.
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The leading candidate in Guatemala’s presidential elections has been eliminated on an administrative technicality in the latest sign of how the country’s deeply entrenched corruption networks leverage the judicial system to crush opponents. Read this piece in its entirety at InSight Crime.
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The U.S. special envoy to Haiti has resigned after just a few months on the job, citing the Biden administration’s “inhumane” and “counterproductive” deportation of Haitians to the crisis-wracked island nation… Read this piece in its entirety at Law360.
Mike LaSusa 