Background Briefing: June 24, 2018

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Critical Elections in Turkey

Then we investigate the source of the immigration crisis on our southern border which stems from the lack of personal security, the rule of law and citizen-based governance in Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras and Mexico, countries rife with corruption and beset by narco traffickers and criminal gangs.Guadalupe Correa-Cabrera, a Professor of Political Science at the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley and the author of “Los Zetas Inc: Criminal Corporations, Energy and Civil War in Mexico” joins us to discuss her study at The Wilson Center “Trafficking in Persons, irregular immigration and Transnational Organized Crime in Central America and Mexico”.

 

Conditions in Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras and Mexico Are the Source of Our Border Crisis

Then we investigate the source of the immigration crisis on our southern border which stems from the lack of personal security, the rule of law and citizen-based governance in Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras and Mexico, countries rife with corruption and beset by narco traffickers and criminal gangs.Guadalupe Correa-Cabrera, a Professor of Political Science at the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley and the author of “Los Zetas Inc: Criminal Corporations, Energy and Civil War in Mexico” joins us to discuss her study at The Wilson Center “Trafficking in Persons, irregular immigration and Transnational Organized Crime in Central America and Mexico”.

 

An Independent Russian Journalist on the World Cup

Then finally we  go to Moscow to speak with an independent journalist Alexey Kovalev, who writes about propaganda, fake news and Russia State media. He joins us to discuss his article at The New York Times “The World Cup is Fun. Except for the Russians Being Tortured”and how Putin, who has unleashed the FSB secret police on so-called dissidents, is using the popular success on the World Cup among Russians who are welcoming foreign guests as a cover for introducing unpopular pension reforms.