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Tracing progress and setbacks
Clayton Collins
Looking for objectively positive developments doesn鈥檛 mean ignoring areas where light is still needed. Today鈥檚 lead story advances what for many is a counternarrative: In a region known for deep rifts, an 鈥淎rab renaissance鈥� in the Gulf states is showing how pragmatism can kindle progress. By contrast, in pockets of Central America, aid cuts have undermined efforts to shore up democracy and civil society. In our report from El Salvador, we take the measure of the damage.聽How, and when, might a bulwark be restored?
