Upcoming Supreme Court elections will shape Guatemala’s chances for reform. Anti-corruption change will only be possible by seizing the moment to dismantle the captured judiciary.

Six months and over 35,000 dead since the start of its military campaign against Gaza, Israel stands before the International Court of Justice accused of genocide, war crimes, crimes against humanity, illegal annexation of territories, and enforcing a system of colonial apartheid against the Palestinian people. Israel is almost completely isolated, and the Palestinians are totally broken. With an average of 85 children killed every day, in Gaza there are no winners. Humanity itself has already lost.

Two years into the state of exception, Juanita Goebertus, Director for the Americas at Human Rights Watch, warns that Salvadorans are defenseless from “the unchecked power of the state.” Despite the reduction in homicides, she accuses the Bukele administration of grave human rights violations and asserts that in El Salvador there has not been a “sustainable dismantling of organized crime.”

For years, the municipality of Frontera Comalapa in Chiapas, Mexico, a territory on the border of Guatemala disputed by criminal groups, has made headlines as a hub of human trafficking, where women from Honduras are sexually exploited and give birth to nationless children. This is the story of an illicit business that operates with impunity, of its victims, the midwives who care for them, and the women who escape their captors.

The women's national team, two-thirds born in the US, has become the most successful soccer team in El Salvador. They did so with 40% less budget than the men, barely speaking Spanish, learning the national anthem on YouTube, and challenging the national identity and even fans’ misogyny.