The label “Northern Triangle” is in the news again as the Biden administration focuses on reducing illegal immigration from the three countries that make up the triangle: El Salvador, Honduras and Guatemala. President Biden named Vice President Kamala Harris to be in charge of Northern Triangle policy, and there’s a special envoy for the Northern Triangle, the State Department’s Ricardo Zúñiga. The number of border crossers from Northern Triangle countries dropped last year at the height of the COVID-19 pandemic but are rebounding. Does the U.S. bear responsibility for the troubles besetting the Northern Triangle? In the Northern Triangle, U.S. interventionism stifled democratic political development that troubles these countries to this day.

Source: Los Angeles Times June 24, 2021 12:56 UTC