New Republic
Friday, February 6, 2015 - 07:04
But the essence of what the Alliance for Prosperity promises is that more of the same—more local spending on infrastructure to facilitate foreign investment, more corporate tax breaks and free trade zones and more regulatory harmonization—will allow Central America to pull itself up by its bootstraps.
Thursday, February 5, 2015 - 06:33
Uzbekistan, the scorched, double-landlocked nation in central Asia, stands known mainly for three things: boiling its dissidents, encouraging child slavery, and authoring the largest government-led massacre of the former Soviet space. The country is one of Freedom House’s 10 “Worst of the Worst” regimes and has been led since independence by President Islam Karimov, 77, who recently announced he’d be standing for yet another term. The regime’s designation and brutality are unlikely to improve anytime soon.
Wednesday, July 23, 2014 - 07:44
According to data collected by the ATF, nearly half of the guns seized from criminals in El Salvador and submitted for tracing in the ATF’s online system last year originated in the U.S., versus 38 and 24 percent in Honduras and Guatemala, respectively.
Wednesday, April 2, 2014 - 00:00
While many aspects of the U.S. immigration system have stayed static in recent years, border security has tightened, contributing to a growing number of deaths.
Thursday, May 3, 2012 - 00:00
If the U.S. recession and stepped-up deportations probably weren't decisive in reducing the number of illegal immigrants, what was? Very likely, societal changes in Mexico.