Sonja Wolf, Research Professor, School of Government and Economics, Panamerican University, Mexico City Image of Security Measures at CECOT in El Salvador. Source: Wikimedia Commons In February 2027 El Salvador will hold general elections. Constitutional reforms passed in July 2025 moved the presidential contest from 2029 to 2027 to synchronize it with the legislative and municipal elections, eliminated limits on reelection, and scrapped the second-round runoff requirement.

Fulton Armstrong, Research Fellow, Center for Latin American and Latino Studies, American University Philip Brenner, Emeritus Professor of International Relations and History, American University View of Havana, Cuba. Source: Robert Albro The Trump administration has been applying to Cuba its credo that might makes right. At the United Nations President Donald Trump pointed to Cuba shortly after musing that he might “annihilate the Islamic Republic ”, driving the Iranian people “into hell with no chance of survival.” U.S.

Reclaim or Rebuild? Washington's Uneven Push for Regional Realignment By Víctor Ortiz Researcher, Instituto de Estudios Nacionales, Universidad de Panamá President Donald Trump greets Chinese President Xi Jinping before a bilateral meeting at the Gimhae International Airport terminal, Thursday, October 30, 2025, in Busan, South Korea. (Official White House Photo by Daniel Torok) In his second term, US president Donald Trump placed the "reclaiming" of the Panama Canal among the central goals of his foreign policy.

The Complex Mexico-U.S. Relationship: Claudia Sheinbaum’s Responses to Donald Trump’s Bullying By Tomás Milton Muñoz Bravo Professor of Political and Social Sciences and Researcher at the Center for International Relations of the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México Image of Claudia Sheinbaum. Source: Wikimedia Commons Following the entry into force of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) in 1994, relations between Mexico and the United States centered primarily on three major issues—trade, security, and migration—and institutional channels were established to address each issue separately.

By Ernesto Castañeda American University Matthew Hayes looks in depth at a population that moves from one country to another without asking for permission. They expect to keep their cultures and worldviews intact and to be respected. They live together in the same part of town. They talk to each other in their native language and are slow to learn the local language.

By Diana Garay, Research Fellow at American University’s Center for Latin American and Latino Studies Source: Diana Garay On July 28, 2026, Keiko Fujimori was sworn in as the country’s ninth president in a decade. Inside Congress, the ceremony displayed the full apparatus of a functioning democracy: a presidential sash, with a king and half a dozen visiting heads of state in attendance.

Marie Miller, Program Associate, Reiss Center on Law and Security, NYU School of Law Source: Wikimedia Commons On September 2, 2025, President Donald Trump announced that he had ordered a kinetic strike against a boat off the coast of Venezuela. U.S. military forces, he said, had identified those onboard as “narcoterrorists” of Tren de Aragua (TdA), a decentralized criminal organization…

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The Trump administration's latest change to the asylum system could funnel more migrants into deportation proceedings, experts said.