shifter
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“It puts the region on edge,” said Michael Shifter, a scholar at Washington policy group the Inter-American Dialogue.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 6, 2026
"It was hard for me to believe, because there was such an overwhelming case against Hernández," said Michael Shifter, an adjunct professor at the Center for Latin American Studies at Georgetown University.
From BBC • Dec. 2, 2025
“It’s all put Latin America on edge,” said Michael Shifter, past president of Inter-American Dialogue, a Washington-based research group.
From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 1, 2025
Shifter said that such a high-level delegation like the one in El Salvador is rarely sent to presidential inaugurations, even of the United States’ closest allies in the region.
From Seattle Times • Jun. 1, 2024
Dick Shifter was born in Cheapside, and, having passed reputably through all the classes of St. Paul's school, has been for some years a student in the Temple.
From The Works of Samuel Johnson, Volume 04 The Adventurer; The Idler by Johnson, Samuel
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