#el-salvador-foreign-policy

#el-salvador-foreign-policy

Roberto Velasco embodies two qualities valued by President Claudia Sheinbaum: technical expertise and generational renewal. At 38, he is the youngest to lead the department in nearly a century.

China does not play by the rules; they do not respect the rules. They are not a democracy, but they intervene in your democracy. Six months later, already in the presidency, he celebrated an agreement with a sister nation: more than $500 million in non-reimbursable aid from Beijing for infrastructure projects that would boost his popularity.

Historic center renewal has become a recurring strategy in Central American cities seeking to reassert the symbolic, economic, and functional relevance of their traditional cores. These processes often combine physical rehabilitation, institutional investment, and stricter control over public space. San Salvador offers a recent and instructive case, which allows for understanding of how interventions in inherited civic spaces balance infrastructure improvement with heritage conservation and social regulation.

The DEA is in Bolivia, he said. Just as the DEA is now present, we also have cooperation from European intelligence and police bodies. Oviedo explained that the initial focus of the law enforcement efforts would be to tighten border surveillance and dismantle trafficking networks.

Migration is a thing that transforms a human into a different type of human ... the self being transformed into this being that doesn't exist there, and doesn't exist here

The celebrity clientele says a lot about how far this once-sleepy village has come. El Zonte first attracted local and international surfers in the 1990s, drawn to the consistent waves and tight knit community. (The town was largely spared from lingering violence of a civil war between the military and left-leaning guerrillas that ended in 1992.) And despite El Salvador's struggling economy-the country, which is about the size of New Jersey, has one of the highest poverty rates in Latin America-

It was not just another bombastic statement in the Republican's provocative style it was the first visible sign of a policy that once again places the region under U.S. oversight. Trump revived old interventionist instincts by interfering in Honduras's presidential election and threatening to cut aid to Central American governments as leverage to force them into agreements aimed at curbing migration.

"Don't go!" more than one voice could be heard shouting in the packed Teatro Colón on January 24. The plea was in response to Colombian senator María José Pizarro Rodríguez's declaration that Colombia's President Gustavo Petro would be traveling to the White House on February 3 "in an act of courage." While the popular Pacto Histórico senator was mostly met with cheers and chants of the Chilean protest song, " El pueblo unido jamás será vencido,"

"This Hidden Central American Surf Town Is Known as 'Bitcoin Beach'-Here's How to Visit," reads a fresh Travel + Leisure headline, which might leave a strapped but itinerant surfer with Central American habits or aspirations feeling just a little more squeezed in these increasingly precious times. El Salvador's El Zonte is no secret on the international surfing circuit, but to see it featured in T+L's margins suggests something else altogether.

Panama's President Jose Raul Mulino has rejected China's threat to make the Central American country pay a heavy price after a Hong Kong company was evicted from two ports on the strategic Panama Canal amid pressure from United States President Donald Trump. Writing on social media on Wednesday, President Mulino said he strongly rejected the Chinese government's threat against his country, which followed after Panama's Supreme Court invalidated a contract that had allowed the Hong Kong-based CK Hutchison to operate two ports on the canal.

The two Mexican navy ships docked on Thursday laden with humanitarian aid as part of Mexico's efforts to support Cuba amid a deepening crisis exacerbated by Donald Trump's economic pressure campaign. The boats, carrying more than 800 tons in aid, arrived at the Caribbean nation two weeks after Trump signed an executive order allowing the US to slap tariffs on any country selling or providing oil to Cuba, effectively choking off fuel to the island.

Venezuela and the United States have taken first steps towards restoring diplomatic ties after a dramatic US military raid led to the capture and ouster of Venezuelan ex-President Nicolas Maduroand his wife Cilia Flores last week. Venezuela said on Friday that it had launched talks with the US on reestablishing relations as a team of US diplomats and a security detail visited the South American country.

Under international treaties, law enforcement officers of host nations are barred from entering foreign embassies and consulates without permission. One eyewitness to the incident in Minneapolis, a flashpoint in the Trump administration's violent mass deportation efforts, told Reuters that they saw ICE agents "going after two people in the street, and then those people went into the consulate and the officers tried to go in after them."