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Chart of the day: Central American GDP per capita
Central America holds its fair share of elections over the coming months, starting with the November 24 general election in Honduras, where voters will select a new president and all 128 legislators...
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El Salvador’s experience in dollarization
On the way back home from Honduras, my plane landed briefly in El Salvador at San Salvador’s airport. Not wanting to pass up a brief opportunity to try my first Salvadoran pupusa in El Salvador*, I...
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Three-way Salvadoran presidential election focuses on security
In the same week that conservative Juan Orlando Hernández was inaugurated as Honduras’s new president, both neighboring El Salvador and Costa Rica will vote for new presidents on Sunday, February 2,...
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Triple-election weekend on two continents
Voters in three countries will go to the polls on Sunday in three very different kinds of contests on two continents: In Thailand (population: 66.8 million), voters will elect all 500 members of the...
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Sánchez Cerén exceeds expectations in first-round Salvadoran vote
With almost every vote counted tonight, here’s where the Salvadoran election stands: In El Salvador, vice president Salvador Sánchez Cerén commanded 48.92% of the vote against the center-right San...
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The US whispering campaign against Sánchez Cerén
There’s a segment of the US foreign policy community that simply doesn’t care much for the likely winner of this weekend’s Salvadoran presidential election, Salvador Sánchez Cerén — and it’s making...
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Johnny Araya suspends campaign in Costa Rica
After the February 2 first-round votes in both El Salvador and Costa Rica, I wrote that even though the Costa Rican vote was tighter than the Salvadoran vote, it was easier to predict that Luis...
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Sánchez Cerén narrowly leads Salvadoran presidential vote
Though El Salvador’s vice president, Salvador Sánchez Cerén, was expected to win the March 9 presidential runoff, the result was so tight that no winner has yet been formally declared, pending a...
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Unaccompanied minors? Blame a century of US Central American policy.
At a panel discussion at the Woodrow Wilson International Center with three Central American foreign ministers, moderator Steve Inskeep, the host of NPR’s Morning Edition, began the hourlong talk...
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Yes, progress in Central America, but don’t call it ‘spring’
Photo credit to AFP. I write for The National Interest on Friday that, despite the progress among civil society groups in Guatemala and Honduras and the resignation of Guatemala’s president Otto Pérez...
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