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Wednesday, December 4, 2024
04/12/2024
Historic Salvadoran environmentalist Vidalina Morales speaks plainly about the Bukele administration’s plans to revoke the country’s ban on metallic mining. “We’ve known from the very beginning. Now the signs are clearer,” she says. Facing militarization under the state of exception, communities in Cabañas fear what the future holds for the anti-mining movement.
Julia Gavarrete
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Tuesday, December 3, 2024
03/12/2024
After spending more than two years in prison in a corrupt judicial process, Guatemala’s most prominent newspaperman was released on house arrest pending retrial. But a Guatemalan court, at the request of AG Consuelo Porras, wants to send Zamora back to Mariscal Zavala, where the publisher suffered poor treatment including torture and due process violations.
Roman Gressier, Victoria Delgado, and Nelson Rauda
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Wednesday, November 27, 2024
27/11/2024
Biden administration sanctions have done little to curb the surge of toxic mining and settler violence in Nicaragua under the purportedly socialist dictatorship of Daniel Ortega — to the resounding benefit of U.S. and Canadian corporations.
Max Granger
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Tuesday, December 3, 2024
03/12/2024
Otto's Take on Donald Trump's return to the White House.
Otto
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Friday, November 29, 2024
29/11/2024
A new Salvadoran cybersecurity agency will censor internet data; Nayib Bukele says he will undo a 2017 mining ban while Guatemala weighs a moratorium; the IMF nears a deal with El Salvador and paints a rosy economic outlook for Nicaragua.
Roman Gressier
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Wednesday, November 27, 2024
27/11/2024
The Personal Data Protection Law, approved by the Bukele-controlled legislature two weeks ago, includes provisions affecting press freedom, like one that would allow an individual to demand the elimination of data from the internet considered “inadequate, inexact, outdated, or excessive.”
Gabriel Labrador
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Monday, November 25, 2024
25/11/2024
In the genocide trial against retired military commander Benedicto Lucas García, initially expected to end three weeks ago, the defense has attempted to recuse the court to delay sentencing. Last-minute tension is affecting proceedings: A judge is now on medical leave, and Attorney General Consuelo Porras removed five prosecutors from the case. Victims asked for international support to achieve the justice they have sought for more than 40 years.
Yuliana Ramazzini
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Friday, November 22, 2024
22/11/2024
Reports of crimes committed by the Honduran police and army abound under the state of exception, the Nicaraguan regime moves to change constitution to make Ortega and Murillo officially “co-presidents”, and DHS acquires spyware in the U.S. like those deployed in El Salvador and Panama.
Roman Gressier
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Wednesday, November 27, 2024
27/11/2024
Biden administration sanctions have done little to curb the surge of toxic mining and settler violence in Nicaragua under the purportedly socialist dictatorship of Daniel Ortega — to the resounding benefit of U.S. and Canadian corporations.
Max Granger
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Tuesday, December 3, 2024
03/12/2024
Otto's Take on Donald Trump's return to the White House.
Otto
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Friday, November 29, 2024
29/11/2024
A new Salvadoran cybersecurity agency will censor internet data; Nayib Bukele says he will undo a 2017 mining ban while Guatemala weighs a moratorium; the IMF nears a deal with El Salvador and paints a rosy economic outlook for Nicaragua.
Roman Gressier
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Wednesday, November 27, 2024
27/11/2024
The Personal Data Protection Law, approved by the Bukele-controlled legislature two weeks ago, includes provisions affecting press freedom, like one that would allow an individual to demand the elimination of data from the internet considered “inadequate, inexact, outdated, or excessive.”
Gabriel Labrador

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