i'm joined now in the studio by madhu is a political scientist at the latin america institute of thefree university and berlin welcome thanks for joining us this morning thank you for inviting me we mentioned that he's a leftist leader what does that mean for mexico well this is a big three in mexico after seventy years of fear i go over meant twelve years of. government and then six years again of so this is a huge challenge for from mexico i think. this is a you appear to need to be to see a new way of it doing politics and also is this completing the cycle of the most finally he's coming in with some very very big promises i mean he's basically promised to completely change the country what do you make of what he's promised first of all what is he promising and is it realistic in the internet in the last twelve years because this is the third time he presents or he runs for the election is he didn't decide very we'll probably defer to larger problems or issues in mexico on the one hand you have corruption and on the other hand you have a social inequality so he promises that. cutt

and un is a latin america analyst foreign policy research institute in washington d.c. she told al-jazeera there are three guys benefiting from foreign support. you get out what is a country that has a history of civil war of factions of right wing versus that way and don't forget this was one of the main battlefields of the cold war during the eighty's right the so. even before that the soviet union versus the u.s. in proxy wars in central america and russia is very close they are big backers of so yet the cuban intelligence services are very much backing ortega the same they same way they are going to swear on and it's no secret we know how many weapons and what weapons exactly what military support the russians have been giving to get out so you have almost that repeat or pattern. well still ahead in this news hour i will tell you about the friendly face of russia the country's world cup hosting scales are praised for changing public opinion about russia and its leader vladimir putin. he has no passport yet he's politically active in two countries i was the only one

latin america. government as a commissioner for the national commission for the search for disappeared persons. professor ofate international peace and conflict resolution and a nonresident senior fellow at the workings institute. he works on human rights and please send it justice reform and has conducted field research . in 2012-2014 served as a senior advisor in the state department your love conflict and stabilization operations, where line.o kept me in he lived in a settlement for monthsed persons for 15 from 1987-1988 and published it transition from war to peace. delighted to welcome them and i am sure this will be a terrific conversation with relating expert. you are from el salvador but based in washington. you listened to the debates we had about the root cause of migration. what comes to your mind? what is the city getting right? what are we missing in terms of conditions driving migrants from el salvador to make the journey to the united states? >> thank you. thank you to american dialogue internationalt for organizing this interesting conversation. migration int central america, what comes to my mind is that we are looking crisisntial humanitarian so the united states needs to adopt a humanitarian