Tag: authoritarians
Venezuela accuses El Salvador of human trafficking as prisoners caught in row between authoritarians
Nayib Bukele offered to exchange 252 Venezuelan migrants deported to El Salvador for 252 prisoners in Venezuela Venezuela’s chief prosecutor has accused El Salvador’s president of being a “tyrannical” human trafficker after Nayib Bukele offered to exchange the 252 Venezuelan migrants deported to his country’s prisons by Donald Trump for the same number of political…
How Trump Is Inspiring Wannabe Authoritarians Everywhere
U.S.A.I.D. news analysis President Trump has turned a central precept of American diplomacy on its head, embracing fellow leaders who abandon democratic principles. By Michael D. Shear Reporting from London When President Joseph R. Biden Jr. convened democracy summits at the White House in 2021 and 2023, he pointedly disinvited President Recep Tayyip Erdogan of…