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COMMENTARY As the first pope from Latin America, Francis will be lauded for urging compassion for the region's immigrants — but also questioned about how effectively he helped reduce their numbers.
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COMMENTARY The tradition of preaching Christianity while practicing cruelty saw a resurrection this Holy Week when the U.S. and Salvadoran presidents doubled down on Kilmar Abrego Garcia.
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COMMENTARY If President Trump hopes to replicate Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele's authoritarian conquest of the judiciary, tiny El Salvador may have a large effect on America's democratic future.
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COMMENTARY With reggaeton star Bad Bunny's support, and after seeing President Trump's terrifying start, independence movements in territories like Puerto Rico and Greenland look energized.
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COMMENTARY If Mexican and Latin American leaders are stunned by President Trump's thug behavior, maybe it's because they never imagined the U.S. would elect a guy who looks like so many of them.
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COMMENTARY We thought former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro was imitating President Trump's Jan. 6 thuggery — but it turns out he was allegedly, and quite chillingly, upstaging Trump the whole time.
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COMMENTARY: Republicans call the trial of a former president in Colombia 'unacceptable' political reprisal — but what's truly unacceptable is the retribution Trump's unleashing in America.
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COMMENTARY President Trump's USAID freeze is a doubly self-defeating mistake: it emboldens Latin American dictators he claims to scare and raises the despair of migrants he wants to keep out.
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COMMENTARY Despite the admirably humane work immigrant advocates do, they also need to remember the political pragmatism that drives the issue — and which drove voters to Trump.
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COMMENTARY President Trump says Latin America needs America "much more than we need them." Not anymore: his Jan. 6 pardons destroyed the rule-of-law example Latin America did need from us.
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COMMENTARY Cuba should not be on the U.S.'s state sponsors of terrorism list. Dissidents should not be in Cuba's prisons. A new deal gives Havana and President Trump a better opportunity to fix that.
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COMMENTARY Venezuelans shouldn't be surprised if Trump sees more political dividends in cutting an oil-and-deportees deal with Maduro instead of tightening the regime-change screws.