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Friday, October 11, 2024
11/10/2024

Central American Conservatives Look to Curb LGBTQ+ Education, Health

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
Reina: The Salvadoran Center-Back Who Fled the Gangs
Feminism under Fire in Central America

Former Salvadoran Colonel Sued in Virginia for 1982 Murder of Dutch Journalists

Graciela Barrera and Gabriel Labrador
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Friday, October 11, 2024
11/10/2024

Former Salvadoran Colonel Sued in Virginia for 1982 Murder of Dutch Journalists

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
Top Former Military Officers Arrested for 1982 Murder of Four Dutch Journalists
Virginia Judge Rejects Deportation of Salvadoran Colonel Tied to El Mozote Massacre
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Wednesday, October 9, 2024
09/10/2024

The “Sons of Chaos” Seek to Start Anew at El Brit

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
The Mangroves Drowning in the Sea
Hunger Has a Face
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Wednesday, October 9, 2024
09/10/2024

One Fewer Lie Roaming Free in the World

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
The Preacher in the Square
Breaking the Monologue of Power
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Tuesday, October 1, 2024
01/10/2024

“We investigated Juan Orlando Hernández’s caudillos, and now Mel Zelaya’s”

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
Castro Responds to Evidence of Drug Ties in Inner Circle by Alleging Coup Conspiracy
Seen as Either a Sell-Out or a Rebel: On the Difficulties of Reporting in Honduras
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Monday, October 7, 2024
07/10/2024

Reina: The Salvadoran Center-Back Who Fled the Gangs

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
How the Women’s Selecta Became the Best Soccer Team in El Salvador
Documentary: How Bukele Broke the Gangs
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Thursday, October 3, 2024
03/10/2024

Salvadoran Security Advisor Proposed Cyberattack on 2021 Election System to Head of Nuevas Ideas

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
Salvadoran President’s Office Ordered Espionage Against Journalists and Political Opponents
Bukele's Plan — Launching National Cryptocurrency by Year's End
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Thursday, September 26, 2024
26/09/2024

Ten Years after Ayotzinapa, Government Impunity Stains the Pursuit of Justice

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
Honduras to Chiapas: A Human Trafficking Pipeline
Imperfect Justice Is Still Justice for Wartime Rape Survivors in Guatemala
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Wednesday, October 9, 2024
09/10/2024

The “Sons of Chaos” Seek to Start Anew at El Brit

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
The Mangroves Drowning in the Sea
Hunger Has a Face
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Wednesday, October 9, 2024
09/10/2024

One Fewer Lie Roaming Free in the World

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
The Preacher in the Square
Breaking the Monologue of Power
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Tuesday, October 1, 2024
01/10/2024

“We investigated Juan Orlando Hernández’s caudillos, and now Mel Zelaya’s”

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
Castro Responds to Evidence of Drug Ties in Inner Circle by Alleging Coup Conspiracy
Seen as Either a Sell-Out or a Rebel: On the Difficulties of Reporting in Honduras
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Monday, October 7, 2024
07/10/2024

Reina: The Salvadoran Center-Back Who Fled the Gangs

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
How the Women’s Selecta Became the Best Soccer Team in El Salvador
Documentary: How Bukele Broke the Gangs

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Friday, September 13, 2024
13/09/2024

Murky Arrest and Bad Weather Surround Death of El Salvador’s Top Cops

An Air Force helicopter crash on Sunday killed eight members of Nayib Bukele’s security cabinet who were transporting an accused embezzler with financial ties to the ruling party, detained in Honduras under unclear circumstances. Bukele will receive U.S. help to investigate at a delicate political moment: The Salvadoran president was the first to insinuate possible foul play, despite possible flight protocol violations.
Yuliana Ramazzini, Victoria Delgado, Gabriela Cáceres, and Roman Gressier
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Wednesday, September 4, 2024
04/09/2024

Castro Responds to Evidence of Drug Ties in Inner Circle by Alleging Coup Conspiracy

President Xiomara Castro has answered scathing new evidence of drug ties against her husband and brother-in-law by accusing the military, opposition, and U.S. Embassy of plotting a coup d’état. Rixi Moncada, the leading presidential pre-candidate for the ruling party, has been named minister of defense, portending a wider crisis given that the military, which she will oversee, is the guarantor of the November 2025 elections.
Roman Gressier
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Thursday, August 15, 2024
15/08/2024

Inexperience, Lawfare, and Online Image Sway Arévalo's Decisions

After almost nine months in office, Bernardo Arévalo's decisions regarding his cabinet have shown that they did not really expect to govern. The inexperience of the party in public management, systematic persecution by the attorney general, and focus on their online image seem to be some of the causes for dismissal of senior officials, and the difficulty to execute an agenda.
Yuliana Ramazzini
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Wednesday, July 17, 2024
17/07/2024

Central America Puts Local Spin on Trump Shooting

Nayib Bukele in El Salvador, Daniel Ortega in Nicaragua, and AG Consuelo Porras in Guatemala each carved domestic messaging from their denunciations of the election-shaping assassination attempt against Donald Trump. With the GOP candidate rising in the polls, his power brokers show signs of how they would read Central America in a possible second Trump term.
Roman Gressier
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Friday, July 5, 2024
05/07/2024

As US Captures MS-13 Leaders, El Salvador Keeps Lid on Whereabouts of Ranfla Nacional

Following the arrest in June of “Greñas”, as many as 11 members of the Ranfla Nacional are thought to still be in custody in El Salvador despite a lack of official transparency. Experts reaffirm that the gang is in disarray, with the rank and file scorning their own historic leaders amid a mutation of no certain result.
Roman Gressier
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Monday, June 3, 2024
03/06/2024

Biden and Trump Camps Jockey for Favor in Bukele’s New El Salvador

Nayib Bukele’s Saturday inauguration was an ironclad display of his control of the military and the obedience he expects from Salvadorans. The Biden administration completed its diplomatic U-turn and received applause from San Salvador, who also flirted over the weekend with a delegation of far-right figureheads featuring Donald Trump Jr.
Roman Gressier and José Luis Sanz
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Friday, May 31, 2024
31/05/2024

Beneath Bukele’s Popularity, Tension and Fear Cloud His Second Inauguration

June 1 marks the inauguration of Nayib Bukele’s unconstitutional second term. Senior diplomatic delegations including from Argentina, Ecuador, Spain, China, and the United States are arriving in San Salvador. But underneath the expected fanfare is an ever-thickening atmosphere of fear among families upended by the state of exception and tensions following dubious police allegations of a bomb plot by former FMLN leaders.
Roman Gressier
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Monday, May 27, 2024
27/05/2024

In Nicaragua, Humberto Ortega Is Just the Latest Regime Insider to Fall On His Sword

The de-facto house arrest of Daniel Ortega’s brother Humberto takes the purge of historic Sandinistas to a new extreme. Seven months after the Nicaraguan dictatorship purged one-tenth of the politically obedient judiciary, including the Supreme Court president at odds with VP Rosario Murillo, the high court is two-thirds vacant.
Roman Gressier
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Tuesday, May 14, 2024
14/05/2024

Arévalo's Reform Bill to Sack Consuelo Porras Stalls in Gridlocked Congress

Four months into office, Arévalo has presented a reform bill proposing performance-based grounds to sack election-interfering Attorney General Consuelo Porras. But Congress has posed a frontal challenge to Semilla, refusing to either hold a session or condemn the bill while accusing the governing party of not meeting them halfway in constructing a broader legislative agenda.
Roman Gressier
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Tuesday, April 30, 2024
30/04/2024

After Months of Protest for Change in Panama, Old-School Faces Lead Sunday Elections

From his refuge in the Nicaraguan Embassy, convicted money launderer and former president Ricardo Martinelli is pulling the strings of the Sunday election in Panama. His party candidate, three-time government minister José Raúl Mulino, leads the polls despite popular frustration with traditional corruption in politics and social decay. But the chance of a judicial decision affecting his candidacy could inject a last-minute surprise.
Roman Gressier and José Luis Sanz
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