“Academia is the new political battlefield in Central America”

<p>Costa Rican historian Víctor Hugo Acuña analyzes his country’s crisis of violence and debunks the myth of a harmonious Costa Rica, tying the record homicides to decades of social decay. “We are at a turning point,” he says of Central America, and criticizes the politics of internal enemies also wielded by Rodrigo Chaves: “Will we finally start to accumulate institutionality?”</p>

Roman Gressier