/Politics
Friday, December 1, 2023
01/12/2023
Starting at midnight on Thursday, Nayib Bukele says he is no longer in power in El Salvador. A low-profile cabinet member and financial officer for years in his inner political circle, Claudia Juana Rodríguez, will allegedly make all the decisions as interim head-of-state until June, when he plans to return to office for a second term following the February 4 election.
Roman Gressier and José Luis Sanz
/Politics
Monday, December 4, 2023
04/12/2023
In Pakistan like in Central America, local power holders were emboldened by Henry Kissinger’s delegation of responsibility. To understand the consequences, we can look at events in El Salvador in 1972, as the ashes of the Bengali fire were still smoldering.
Héctor Lindo
/Politics
Tuesday, November 28, 2023
28/11/2023
Two years after bitcoin adoption, most of the population hasn’t reported any benefit. Binance, the crypto giant licensed to issue digital assets by Bukele this August, just admitted to violating U.S. anti-money laundering laws. With bitcoin bonds nowhere in sight, the administration is again turning to the IMF as a debt solution.
Roman Gressier and José Luis Sanz
/Politics
Tuesday, November 14, 2023
14/11/2023
Polarization in Honduras is spiking amid a violent stalemate over the ruling party’s imposition of a partisan interim AG. With two years left in Xiomara Castro’s term, doubts keep growing about her pledge to install the CICIH, a U.N.-backed anti-corruption commission.
Roman Gressier and José Luis Sanz
/Politics
Friday, November 10, 2023
10/11/2023
Honduras is not El Salvador; the narco-state’s attempts to replicate the Salvadoran model, in decreeing a “state of exception,” have not managed to eradicate the country’s gangs. They have, however, managed to impose a state of repression.
Jennifer Ávila
/Historical Memory
Wednesday, November 15, 2023
15/11/2023
It’s 9pm on November 15, 1989, when Col. Benavides tells him, “Camilo, go and give the Atlacatl Battalion the order”. Almost 22 years later, in 2011, retired Lt. Col. Camilo Hernández claimed he refused to do it — but not that he handed over the gun that killed six Jesuit priests, their cook, and her daughter.
Carlos Dada
/Politics
Friday, November 3, 2023
03/11/2023
Dora María Téllez, the legendary ex-Sandinista commander key to the downfall of Somoza, survived 606 days in solitary confinement by the Ortega dictatorship. In this interview, Téllez examines the current stage of the regime and opposition efforts to chart a roadmap for the recovery of Nicaraguan democracy: “There has to be justice in Nicaragua, otherwise we will have learned nothing. We would be unable to reach the most important bounds of this crisis.”
Carlos Fernando Chamorro
/Politics
Monday, October 9, 2023
09/10/2023
The national strike convened by Indigenous leaders in Guatemala to demand the resignation of the attorney general has caught student movements from the historic San Carlos University mired in disagreements and criminalized by their own university. Even so, a handful of students and alumni joined the blockades on Friday in the capital as thousands showcased the diversity of support for the protests, which turned one week old on Monday.
Roman Gressier
/Politics
Tuesday, November 28, 2023
28/11/2023
Two years after bitcoin adoption, most of the population hasn’t reported any benefit. Binance, the crypto giant licensed to issue digital assets by Bukele this August, just admitted to violating U.S. anti-money laundering laws. With bitcoin bonds nowhere in sight, the administration is again turning to the IMF as a debt solution.
Roman Gressier and José Luis Sanz
/Politics
Tuesday, November 14, 2023
14/11/2023
Polarization in Honduras is spiking amid a violent stalemate over the ruling party’s imposition of a partisan interim AG. With two years left in Xiomara Castro’s term, doubts keep growing about her pledge to install the CICIH, a U.N.-backed anti-corruption commission.
Roman Gressier and José Luis Sanz
/Politics
Friday, November 10, 2023
10/11/2023
Honduras is not El Salvador; the narco-state’s attempts to replicate the Salvadoran model, in decreeing a “state of exception,” have not managed to eradicate the country’s gangs. They have, however, managed to impose a state of repression.
Jennifer Ávila
/Historical Memory
Wednesday, November 15, 2023
15/11/2023
It’s 9pm on November 15, 1989, when Col. Benavides tells him, “Camilo, go and give the Atlacatl Battalion the order”. Almost 22 years later, in 2011, retired Lt. Col. Camilo Hernández claimed he refused to do it — but not that he handed over the gun that killed six Jesuit priests, their cook, and her daughter.
Carlos Dada

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