Trump threats and Bukele model on crime back Latin American progressives into corner

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MEXICO CITY (AP) — Latin American progressive leaders are increasingly being backed into a corner on organized crime by pressure from the Trump administration and from their own voters, who point to the results from El Salvador president’s war on gangs. The hunger for a more heavy-handed response to endemic problems has been mounting for years in Latin America. El Salvador President Nayib Bukele’s punitive tactics launched against his country’s gangs in 2022, resulted in a sharp decline in

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