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Friday, October 11, 2024
11/10/2024
Conservative administrations and legislators are seeking to roll back what limited progressive health and education policies have been implemented in the region in favor of LGBTQ+ people. Sex education is facing possible curtailing in Guatemala and El Salvador and access to HIV treatment is being challenged by doctors' “conscientious objection” in Costa Rica. Meanwhile, the Honduran state was found responsible in July for the death of trans woman Leonela Zelaya, the second such ruling in four years.
Yuliana Ramazzini
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Friday, October 11, 2024
11/10/2024
The brother of one of the four Dutch journalists murdered in Chalatenango 42 years ago, during the civil war, has sued Colonel Mario Reyes Mena, a fugitive of Salvadoran justice since 2022, in a Virginia District Court, seeking to repeat the same legal pathway that led to the deportation of former defense ministers also accused of wartime human rights violations.
Graciela Barrera and Gabriel Labrador
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Wednesday, October 9, 2024
09/10/2024
El Brit, a center for people recovering from addictions in downtown San Salvador, is supported by a small shop and donations. It was born four years ago and, amid the precarity, attends to nearly one hundred people at a time.
Carlos Barrera
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Wednesday, October 9, 2024
09/10/2024
Our profession does not entail changing the world, but rather dreaming of doing so; of girding ourselves with steely convictions and holding onto them like castaways.
Carlos Martínez
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Tuesday, October 1, 2024
01/10/2024
Jennifer Ávila, editorial director of Honduran digital outlet Contracorriente, denounces increased state attacks stemming from recent investigations into the Castro-Zelaya circle, but says their greatest challenge is to win over more of the Honduran public. “It is hard for people to understand that journalism must question power,” she says, “regardless of who wields it.”
Roman Gressier
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Monday, October 7, 2024
07/10/2024
Reina Cruz and her family fled the MS-13 gang from Río Zarco, Santa Ana, to Houston, where she became a soccer player. Reina returned 12 years later to début on the women’s national team. She and her partner, Megan Bennett, are striving to play together for El Salvador, a country that does not recognize same-sex marriage, posing unsettling questions for a society hostile toward women and its LGBTQ population.
Nelson Rauda and Víctor Peña
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Thursday, October 3, 2024
03/10/2024
Security advisor Alejandro Muyshondt met in 2021 with Nuevas Ideas party president Xavier Zablah Bukele and President Nayib Bukele's brother, Ibrajim, and claimed that he had “stolen” the source code for the TSE's internal vote-counting system. He also proposed to Zablah a series of illegal strategies to launch a cyberattack if the preliminary results were not what they expected.
Carlos Martínez, Gabriel Labrador, Sergio Arauz, and Nelson Rauda
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Thursday, September 26, 2024
26/09/2024
Despite the numerous arrests and indictments in the Ayotzinapa case, the Mexican government has failed to put itself truly on the side of the victims, instead betting on the side of power, opacity, impunity, and corruption.
Omar Gómez Trejo
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Wednesday, October 9, 2024
09/10/2024
El Brit, a center for people recovering from addictions in downtown San Salvador, is supported by a small shop and donations. It was born four years ago and, amid the precarity, attends to nearly one hundred people at a time.
Carlos Barrera
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Wednesday, October 9, 2024
09/10/2024
Our profession does not entail changing the world, but rather dreaming of doing so; of girding ourselves with steely convictions and holding onto them like castaways.
Carlos Martínez
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Tuesday, October 1, 2024
01/10/2024
Jennifer Ávila, editorial director of Honduran digital outlet Contracorriente, denounces increased state attacks stemming from recent investigations into the Castro-Zelaya circle, but says their greatest challenge is to win over more of the Honduran public. “It is hard for people to understand that journalism must question power,” she says, “regardless of who wields it.”
Roman Gressier
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Monday, October 7, 2024
07/10/2024
Reina Cruz and her family fled the MS-13 gang from Río Zarco, Santa Ana, to Houston, where she became a soccer player. Reina returned 12 years later to début on the women’s national team. She and her partner, Megan Bennett, are striving to play together for El Salvador, a country that does not recognize same-sex marriage, posing unsettling questions for a society hostile toward women and its LGBTQ population.
Nelson Rauda and Víctor Peña

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