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1 week ago |
wlrn.org | Tim Padgett
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. Across Latin America this Easter weekend, Christians will commemorate Jesus’ crucifixion and resurrection by indulging in a passion Jesus preached passionately against: cruelty.
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1 week ago |
kbindependent.org | Tim Padgett
This story was updated on April 16 at 10:15 am. For a fleeting moment last Tuesday, Jessica Rodriguez and Josué Aguilar Valle thought their anxieties were over. At the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) facility in Kendall, they’d just been told Aguilar’s path to legal immigrant status had been approved. His marriage to a U.S. citizen (Rodriguez) was deemed valid. He had a good, taxpaying job and no criminal history.
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1 week ago |
wlrn.org | Tim Padgett
For a fleeting moment last Tuesday, Jessica Rodriguez and Josué Aguilar Valle thought their anxieties were over. At the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) facility in Kendall, they’d just been told Aguilar's path to legal immigrant status had been approved. His marriage to a U.S. citizen (Rodriguez) was deemed valid. He had a good, taxpaying job and no criminal history.
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2 weeks ago |
wlrn.org | Tim Padgett
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s visit to Panama this week has Latin America experts speculating that President Donald Trump’s threat to take back the Panama Canal has waned — and shifted to a more cooperative approach to blunt China's influence there and across the region.
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2 weeks ago |
wlrn.org | Tim Padgett
COMMENTARY Costa Rica is a longstanding democratic model in the hemisphere — but is its controversial president poised to adopt the dictatorial methods of the new autocratic model, El Salvador? El Salvador’s fall into authoritarian rule hasn’t surprised me. Democracy’s roots in that small Central American nation run about as deep as musical taste in a South Beach techno club. That’s why autocratic President Nayib Bukele has had little trouble ripping them out.
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Tico Trouble: #CostaRica is a longstanding democratic model in the hemisphere — but is its controversial president poised to adopt the dictatorial methods of the new autocratic model, #ElSalvador? My @WLRN commentary.https://t.co/OnoQyhpsvC

Tico Trouble: #CostaRica is a longstanding democratic model in the hemisphere - but is its controversial president poised to adopt the dictatorial methods of the new autocratic model, #ElSalvador? My @WLRN commentary.https://t.co/OnoQyhpsvC

Tico Trouble: Is #CostaRica democracy flirting with #ElSalvador autocracy? My @WLRN commentary.https://t.co/OnoQyhpsvC