The world must not forget what was achieved with the 1992 Peace Accords in El Salvador. By understanding the sources of a mediator’s power, how to overcome impasses, and the characteristics that make mediators effective, those supporting mediation efforts in today’s conflicts can be more successful.

Exiled former Guatemalan AG Claudia Paz y Paz denounces that the office she led a decade ago is now an instrument of criminalization at the service of the top prosecutor. “As long as Consuelo Porras remains in office, (...) any person can be a victim of persecution,” she asserts.

Honduras threatens Trump with pulling a U.S. military base. Guatemala says it could receive Central American deportees while its courts dismiss two press-freedom appeals. Panama rebuffs Trump’s grasping for the Canal Zone as “non-negotiable.”

In the last three years, the average price per square meter in one of El Salvador’s most famous beaches was $80.61 USD, more than doubling from $34.33 before 2020. El Faro reviewed a sample of 50 sales and purchases between 2015 and 2024. Five bitcoiners and one company have bought 992,000 square meters in El Zonte for a total of $3.7 million. In luxury projects for sale now, the average price per square meter amounts to more than $1,000. The revaluation occurs after years of a government strategy to turn El Zonte into Bitcoin Beach, an area of boutique hotels and apartment towers, within reach of foreigners and the wealthiest Salvadorans.

In December, two-thirds of Congress approved an anti-monopoly law proposed by legislators aligned with President Bernardo Arévalo, marking a significant improvement of their negotiating power in the legislature while sparking debate over whether the new rules will in fact curb market concentration — or create insider loopholes.