Central America in Minutes
By El Faro English
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A weekly podcast from El Faro English where we cover our breaking investigations, the splashiest headlines from around Central America, and the stories swept underneath the rug.
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Bukele and Guatemalan AG Compare Notes on Lawfare
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May 23, 2025 |
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Bukele Re-Ups Old Plans to Tax NGOs as Foreign Agents
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May 16, 2025 |
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Over 1,000 Days without Freedom for Guatemala’s Top Journalist
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May 02, 2025 |
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In Bukele’s El Salvador, Defying Court Orders Is an Old Tune
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Apr 18, 2025 |
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Seven Years of Nicaraguan Repression in UN Hot Seat
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Apr 11, 2025 |
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For a Portrait of Bukele, Look to His Prisons
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Apr 04, 2025 |
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Panama Grants Fugitive President Safe Passage to Nicaragua
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Mar 28, 2025 |
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Bukele and Musk Bond over Attacks on U.S. Judiciary
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Mar 21, 2025 |
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Honduras Plays the Blame Game in Turbulent Primaries
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Mar 14, 2025 |
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Just How Close Is Honduras to a China Trade Deal?
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Mar 07, 2025 |
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Salvadoran Police Re-Arrest Activist Who Sued Director of Prisons for Torture
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Feb 28, 2025 |
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Back to US Prison for Guatemalan Narco-Congressman
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Feb 21, 2025 |
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Honduran Campesinos Under Siege in Bajo Aguán
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Feb 14, 2025 |
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Nicaragua’s “Angel of Death” Falls from Grace
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Feb 07, 2025 |
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Bukele Gets Pat on the Back from Trump White House
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Jan 31, 2025 |
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Inter-American Court Condemns Daniel Ortega’s 2011 Reelection
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Jan 24, 2025 |
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Biden Extends TPS for El Salvador but not Honduras, Nicaragua
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Jan 17, 2025 |
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Panama and Honduras Set Red Lines for Trump
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Jan 10, 2025 |
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Argentinian Court Signs International Arrest Warrants for 2018 State Crimes in Nicaragua
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Jan 03, 2025 |
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2025 Elections: Xiomara Castro’s Big Test
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Dec 27, 2024 |
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With IMF Deal, Bukele Rolls Back Bitcoin Ambitions
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Dec 20, 2024 |
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A Guatemalan Witchhunt Against Journalists
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Dec 13, 2024 |
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Tuberculosis Rocks Salvadoran Prisons
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Dec 06, 2024 |
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Bukele Tightens Grip On Internet
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Nov 29, 2024 |
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Police Crimes Reign Under Honduran State of Exception
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Nov 22, 2024 |
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Ortega’s Onslaught Against Catholic Priests Marches On
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Nov 15, 2024 |
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Central America Tries to Shake Trump’s Hand
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Nov 08, 2024 |
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Welcome to Central America in Minutes
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Nov 07, 2024 |
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Genocide On Trial Again in Guatemala
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Nov 01, 2024 |
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Guatemalan Newspaperman Jose Rubén Zamora Released from Prison at Last
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Oct 25, 2024 |
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Castro Responds to Evidence of Drug Ties in Inner Circle by Alleging Coup Conspiracy
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Sep 05, 2024 |
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El Salvador Overpaid $7 Million to Shell Company for Undelivered Milk During Pandemic
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Aug 23, 2024 |
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Biden and Trump Camps Jockey for Favor in Bukele’s New El Salvador
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Jun 04, 2024 |
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A Dictatorship Is Born
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Jun 02, 2024 |
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Beneath Bukele’s Popularity, Tension and Fear Cloud His Second Inauguration
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Jun 01, 2024 |
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Bukele’s Anti-Corruption Smokescreen
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May 01, 2024 |
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The Environment in War: No Longer a Silent Victim
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Mar 13, 2024 |
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Opposition Seeks Path Forward After Electoral Rout in El Salvador
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Mar 08, 2024 |
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TSE President Admitted Irregularities and “Possible Intervention” in Salvadoran Election
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Feb 08, 2024 |
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In Election by His Own Rules, Four-Fifths of Salvadorans Give Bukele a Second Term
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Feb 06, 2024 |
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With Reelection Almost Certain, Sunday Vote Will Test Extent of Salvadoran Opposition
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Feb 02, 2024 |
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Salvadoran Government Conspired with Gang Leader to Recapture ‘Crook’ through Jalisco Cartel
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Jan 28, 2024 |
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MS-13 Leader “Crook” Asked for More Time to Plead His Case in U.S. Trial
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Jan 13, 2024 |
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Espíritu Santo Island against the Sergeant
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Dec 13, 2023 |
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International Community Places No Hurdles to Reelection for Bukele
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Sep 29, 2023 |
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Interpol Tied Nuevas Ideas Legislator to Money Laundering and Human Trafficking
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Sep 04, 2023 |
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Verdict in Guatemala Expected for Massacre from Ríos Montt Years
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Aug 18, 2023 |
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US Sanctions Judge and Prosecutor Involved in Attempted Electoral Coup in Guatemala
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Jul 22, 2023 |
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Salvadoran Prosecutors Accuse Top Prison Bureau Aide of Selling Benefits to Narcos
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Jul 07, 2023 |
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Arévalo Breaks into Presidential Runoff for Center-Left Surprise in Guatemala
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Jun 26, 2023 |
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Allegations of Electoral Court Bribery Fuel Doubts about Legitimacy of Guatemalan Election
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Jun 23, 2023 |
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Zamora’s Sentence Hits Guatemalan Journalism Just Ahead of General Election
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Jun 20, 2023 |
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Bukele Cuts 30% of Assembly Seats and 83% of Mayors Months Before Elections
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Jun 14, 2023 |
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Bukele Cuts 30% of Assembly Seats and 83% of Mayors Months Before Elections
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Jun 02, 2023 |
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Civil Society Leads Push for Unified Opposition Candidate in El Salvador
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May 29, 2023 |
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You’ve Seen Bukele’s Twitter. We Should Talk About His YouTube Tricks.
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May 22, 2023 |
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A Quarter Century of Journalism
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May 16, 2023 |
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elPeriódico Forced to Close as Ninth Defense Attorney Takes on Zamora Case
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May 16, 2023 |
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Where Does Central America Fit in a Multipolar World?
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May 05, 2023 |
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Beatriz Trial in Inter-American Court Defies Total Abortion Ban in El Salvador
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Apr 27, 2023 |
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El Faro Moves to Costa Rica
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Apr 14, 2023 |
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US Arrests One of the Army Officers Accused of the El Mozote Massacre
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Apr 10, 2023 |
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Exclusion of Presidential Candidates Stains June Guatemalan Elections
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Mar 30, 2023 |
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“If the FMLN runs for the presidency, it is doing Bukele’s bidding”
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Mar 24, 2023 |
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US Senate and House Urge CABEI to Cut Off Funding to Daniel Ortega
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Mar 24, 2023 |
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The Other Beatrices
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Mar 15, 2023 |
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Crypto Barons Get a Diplomatic Façade in El Salvador
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Mar 09, 2023 |
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Bukele Looks to Eliminate Four-Fifths of El Salvador Municipalities
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Mar 09, 2023 |
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Guatemala, Crossroads of the Venezuelan Exodus
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Mar 09, 2023 |
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Bukele's Pact with the Gangs Lasted Three Massacres
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Mar 03, 2023 |
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El Salvador Government Protection of MS-13 from Extradition Emerges in DOJ Indictment
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Mar 01, 2023 |
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The Salvadoran Diplomatic Corps Is Plagued with Paranoia
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Feb 27, 2023 |
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Company Owned by Key Bukele Officials Received $500K from President Funes’ Black Budget
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Feb 27, 2023 |
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Salvadoran Police Confirmed Arbitrary Arrest of Bricklayer, but He Remains Detained Nine Months Later
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Feb 17, 2023 |
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Political Prisoners Expelled from Nicaragua Land in US Limbo
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Feb 14, 2023 |
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Apple Warned Salvadoran Supreme Court Judge of Possible Pegasus Infection
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Feb 10, 2023 |
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Exile, Prison, and Espionage: The Cost of Informing in Central America
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Feb 09, 2023 |
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Bukele Government Dismantled Gang Presence in El Salvador
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Feb 03, 2023 |
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El Salvador Obtained Three New Spyware Tools in 2020 from Israeli Intermediary
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Jan 30, 2023 |
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Gang Divisions Provoked 2021 Massacre and Almost Toppled Negotiations with Bukele
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Jan 06, 2023 |
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The Inside Story of How El Salvador’s Official Crypto Wallet Crashed and Failed
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Dec 16, 2022 |
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Honduras and El Salvador on same wavelength
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Dec 09, 2022 |
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15 Members of El Faro Sue NSO in US Federal Court for Pegasus Hacks
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Dec 01, 2022 |
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Under Xiomara Castro, Honduran Garifunas Receive JOH-Style Military Eviction
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Nov 22, 2022 |
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Police Documents Prove Illegal Release of MS-13 Leader in El Salvador
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Oct 28, 2022 |
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Biden closes door on Ortega's gold
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Oct 25, 2022 |
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During March Massacre, El Salvador Government Took Four MS-13 Leaders Out of Prison
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Oct 13, 2022 |
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Bukele Announces a Dictatorship
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Sep 24, 2022 |
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Central America and US Avoid Condemning Bukele’s 2024 Candidacy
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Sep 20, 2022 |
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Bukele Announces He Will Seek Reelection in 2024 despite Constitutional Ban
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Sep 16, 2022 |
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US Senate Poised to Finally Confirm Four Ambassadors to Central America
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Sep 09, 2022 |
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Two Months after Wrongful Arrest, Don Paco Returned Home in a Casket
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Sep 01, 2022 |
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Salvadoran AG Buried Evidence of Corruption in Covid-19 Food Contracts Worth $22.7 Million
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Aug 24, 2022 |
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The Case against Journalist José Rubén Zamora Was Built in 72 Hours
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Aug 19, 2022 |
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Rodrigo Chaves Plays Central American Hardball with the Press
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Aug 12, 2022 |
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State of Exception Files: Hundreds Arrested for Prior Convictions or “Looking Nervous”
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Aug 08, 2022 |
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Guatemala Detains Its Most Prominent Journalist
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Aug 04, 2022 |
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The Survivors of Cayos Cochinos
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Aug 01, 2022 |
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Former President Manuel Zelaya Is Back on Stage in Honduras
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Jul 29, 2022 |
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El Salvador Government Still Floats Possibility of IMF Deal
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Jul 14, 2022 |
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Transnational Escape of MS-13 Leader “Crook” Caught on Social Media
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Jul 12, 2022 |
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The Guatemalan Link between Jalisco New Generation Cartel and FARC Dissidents
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Jul 08, 2022 |
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Diary of a Public Defender Drowning in the State of Exception
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Jul 08, 2022 |
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Ortega Finds Complicity in Central American Presidents
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Jul 05, 2022 |
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“Talking about the Past Restores People’s Dignity”
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Jun 29, 2022 |
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Bukele Fiddles while the Crypto Market Burns
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Jun 21, 2022 |
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Central America Talks Back to Biden
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Jun 16, 2022 |
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New Targets of Attorney General’s Lawfare against Guatemalan Justice
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Jun 08, 2022 |
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Gang Extraditions Will Unify Washington against Bukele
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Jun 07, 2022 |
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Summit in Los Angeles Showcases Biden’s Central America Problem
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Jun 02, 2022 |
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El Salvador Supreme Court Magistrate was Former Defense Attorney for Head of MS-13
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May 27, 2022 |
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Collapsed Government Talks with MS-13 Sparked Record Homicides in El Salvador, Audios Reveal
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May 23, 2022 |
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Will the State of Exception Be the New Normal?
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Apr 26, 2022 |
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Four Bleak Aprils in Nicaragua
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Apr 25, 2022 |
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Gang Expert Flees El Salvador after Threats from Bukele
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Apr 16, 2022 |
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Gag Order for Journalism on Gangs
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Apr 09, 2022 |
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Costa Rica Chooses Trump-Inspired Outsider
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Apr 06, 2022 |
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No New Ideas after El Salvador’s Homicide Crisis
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Apr 02, 2022 |
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Is Bukele's Gang Truce Unraveling?
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Apr 01, 2022 |