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🗞️ Translating Central America since 1998. English edition of independent news outlet @elfaro.net. Subscribe: https://elfaro.net/suscribe/en/ Stream #CentralAmericaInMinutes: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/central-america-in-minutes/id1617223682
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El Faro English @elfaroenglish.bsky.social · 7d
🎙️ Salvadoran-born journalist Mario Guevara was deported today, Friday, after his arrest in June, while covering protests in Georgia against the immigration raids of Trump’s first months. He was the only known journalist detained by ICE on U.S. soil. beta.elfaro.net/en/a-region-...
Podcast: The Deportation of Mario Guevara: Where Attacks on Immigrants and Journalists Collide
Salvadoran-born journalist Mario Guevara was deported today, Friday, after his arrest in June, while covering protests in Georgia against the immigration raids of Trump’s first months. He was the only...
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El Faro English @elfaroenglish.bsky.social · 6h
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El Faro English @elfaroenglish.bsky.social · 8h
Gang members arrived in El Salvador in those early postwar years, when other armed gangs dominated the criminal ecosystem. Little by little, they grew and entered the new century with the capacity to impose themselves on all others. #efPhoto beta.elfaro.net/en/central-a...
Twenty-Five Years of Horror
Gangs kept Salvadorans on their knees for more than two and a half decades. This phenomenon gripped a country reeling from mass deportations from the United States in the 1990s, taking root in the…
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El Faro English @elfaroenglish.bsky.social · 11h
"This isn’t what they promised," Katherine Guevara told El Faro English, after her father, Salvadoran journalist Mario Guevara, was detained by ICE. "They said they would go after criminals. But instead, they’re rounding up and detaining everyone."
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Podcast: The Deportation of Mario Guevara: Where Attacks on Immigrants and Journalists Collide
Salvadoran-born journalist Mario Guevara was deported today, Friday, after his arrest in June, while covering protests in Georgia against the immigration raids of Trump’s first months. He was the…
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El Faro English @elfaroenglish.bsky.social · 14h
Costa Rican President Rodrigo Chaves avoided the lifting of his immunity but faces a new accusation of electoral interference, reports Gabriel Labrador. Nayib Bukele made a video throwing his support behind Chaves’ project as one of “safety and prosperity.”
Rodrigo Chaves Stirs Up Costa Rican Election without Being on the Ballot
President Rodrigo Chaves avoided the lifting of his immunity amid a corruption probe, but the head of state now faces a new accusation of interference in the upcoming election. Nayib Bukele made a…
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El Faro English @elfaroenglish.bsky.social · 17h
Expert on authoritarianism Ruth Ben-Ghiat study of the political strategies and impact of the most prominent authoritarians, as diverse as Mussolini, Gaddafi, Putin, and Pinochet, identifies common threads and strategies to combat them. beta.elfaro.net/en/the-tertu...
Countering the Strongman
Expert on authoritarianism Ruth Ben-Ghiat published in 2020 an acclaimed comparative study of the political strategies and impact of the most prominent authoritarian leaders from Mussolini to our…
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El Faro English @elfaroenglish.bsky.social · 1d
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El Faro English @elfaroenglish.bsky.social · 1d
This is a story about agreements made between politicians and drug traffickers and police and landowners and military officers, and about the lines that separate them, but which, in this part of Honduras, have long been erased. beta.elfaro.net/en/from-the-...
In Honduras, a Friend of Drug Lords Loses His Seat in Congress
Congressman Óscar Nájera admits that Honduras is a narcostate. He knows it because he has spent three decades representing a prominent province along the cocaine corridor. He knows it because he is…
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El Faro English @elfaroenglish.bsky.social · 1d
The strongman’s rogue nature also draws people to him. He proclaims law-and-order rule, yet enables lawlessness. This paradox becomes official policy as government evolves into a criminal enterprise. beta.elfaro.net/en/the-tertu...
Countering the Strongman
Expert on authoritarianism Ruth Ben-Ghiat published in 2020 an acclaimed comparative study of the political strategies and impact of the most prominent authoritarian leaders from Mussolini to our…
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El Faro English @elfaroenglish.bsky.social · 1d
In Central America Monthly, we have taken a stab at explaining the nature of the political leadership in our region today, connecting the dots between countries often experienced and analyzed in isolation.
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No Hands Are Clean
It can be said about El Salvador like it can be said about Honduras: There is evidence that all three political machines of the last three decades secretly partnered with organized crime for their…
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El Faro English @elfaroenglish.bsky.social · 1d
Costa Rican President Rodrigo Chaves avoided the lifting of his immunity but faces a new accusation of electoral interference, reports @periodistagl.bsky.social. Nayib Bukele made a video throwing his support behind Chaves’ project as one of “safety and prosperity.” beta.elfaro.net/en/central-a...
Rodrigo Chaves Stirs Up Costa Rican Election without Being on the Ballot
President Rodrigo Chaves avoided the lifting of his immunity amid a corruption probe, but the head of state now faces a new accusation of interference in the upcoming election. Nayib Bukele made a cam...
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El Faro English @elfaroenglish.bsky.social · 1d
The deportation of Salvadoran journalist Mario Guevara isn’t only a story of attacks on immigrants in Georgia; it highlights another trend: By August, assaults on journalists in the U.S. had already reached a four-year high. beta.elfaro.net/en/a-region-...
Podcast: The Deportation of Mario Guevara: Where Attacks on Immigrants and Journalists Collide
Salvadoran-born journalist Mario Guevara was deported today, Friday, after his arrest in June, while covering protests in Georgia against the immigration raids of Trump’s first months. He was the…
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El Faro English @elfaroenglish.bsky.social · 2d
In Costa Rica, the economy, the landscape, and community life are undergoing rapid transformation due to foreign investment and the massive influx of tourists and new residents to territories where the law of the market prevails. beta.elfaro.net/en/by-invita...
Guanacaste in English: Dollars and Luxury Inundate Costa Rica’s Most Touristy Province
A foreign tsunami is arriving in the form of investments, travelers, and new settlers on Costa Rica’s Pacific coast. The real estate business exploded after the pandemic and is now expanding,…
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El Faro English @elfaroenglish.bsky.social · 2d
This is an intimate story of a man condemned to die in pain amid the precariousness of El Salvador’s public health system, where healing depends on the patient’s economic capacity, writes Sergio Arauz. This is the story of my father’s death. beta.elfaro.net/en/spotlight...
To Die of Hospitals in El Salvador
This is an intimate story of a man condemned to die in pain amid the precariousness of El Salvador’s public health system, where healing depends on the patient’s economic capacity, regardless of how…
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El Faro English @elfaroenglish.bsky.social · 2d
Trump had been in office for barely a month after winning his first election when he spoke about MS-13 for the first time. Nine years later, Trump and Bukele would reach secret agreements that used several leaders of that gang as bargaining chips.
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Twenty-Seven MS-13 Bosses as Pawns between Bukele and Trump
One of these men, according to information not confirmed by the Salvadoran government, died; eight remain in the United States, awaiting trial or deportation back to Bukele; and 18 are purportedly…
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El Faro English @elfaroenglish.bsky.social · 2d
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El Faro English @elfaroenglish.bsky.social · 2d
Hundreds gathered at Central American University over a four-day wake to commemorate the life of Father Chema Tojeira. He was buried alongside Ignacio Ellacuría and their other Jesuit companions assassinated by the Salvadoran Army in 1989. #efPhoto beta.elfaro.net/en/ef-photo-...
The Final Pilgrimage of Chema Tojeira
Hundreds gathered at Central American University over a four-day wake to commemorate the life of Father Chema Tojeira, a prominent figure in El Salvador for his decadeslong fight against impunity…
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El Faro English @elfaroenglish.bsky.social · 2d
From 2021: Los Cachiros was the last of the big Honduran cartels to fall. But the cartel still has operations in Colón. Plenty of drug shipments still come in through the coast, or land on air strips hidden in the palm groves. beta.elfaro.net/en/from-the-...
In Honduras, a Friend of Drug Lords Loses His Seat in Congress
Congressman Óscar Nájera admits that Honduras is a narcostate. He knows it because he has spent three decades representing a prominent province along the cocaine corridor. He knows it because he is…
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El Faro English @elfaroenglish.bsky.social · 2d
Under three months until election day in Honduras, lawfare and institutional capture threaten credibility, campaign auditors have no budget, candidates have been assassinated, and parties are already dabbling in accusations of fraud. beta.elfaro.net/en/case-file...
Podcast: Six Threats to the Election in Honduras
With under three months until election day in Honduras, alarm bells are sounding: Lawfare and institutional capture threaten credibility of the November 30 elections amid efforts to veto civil…
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El Faro English @elfaroenglish.bsky.social · 3d
Early signs of trouble already dot the horizon for the November election in Honduras. This issue also releases an unprecedented case file of the MS-13 leaders indicted in the United States, a chronicle of Costa Rican gentrification, and more.
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El Faro English @elfaroenglish.bsky.social · 3d
"This isn’t what they promised," Katherine Guevara told El Faro English, after her father, Salvadoran journalist Mario Guevara, was detained by ICE. "They said they would go after criminals. But instead, they’re rounding up and detaining everyone."
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Podcast: The Deportation of Mario Guevara: Where Attacks on Immigrants and Journalists Collide
Salvadoran-born journalist Mario Guevara was deported today, Friday, after his arrest in June, while covering protests in Georgia against the immigration raids of Trump’s first months. He was the…
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El Faro English @elfaroenglish.bsky.social · 3d
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El Faro English @elfaroenglish.bsky.social · 3d
This is a story about agreements made between politicians and drug traffickers and police and landowners and military officers, and about the lines that separate them, but which, in this part of Honduras, have long been erased. beta.elfaro.net/en/from-the-...
In Honduras, a Friend of Drug Lords Loses His Seat in Congress
Congressman Óscar Nájera admits that Honduras is a narcostate. He knows it because he has spent three decades representing a prominent province along the cocaine corridor. He knows it because he is…
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El Faro English @elfaroenglish.bsky.social · 3d
This investigation paints a disturbing picture of women who suffer most when a country stretches the definition of abortion beyond its meaning and bans them without exception. Co-published in partnership with LatinoUSA. beta.elfaro.net/en/elfaro-au...
Podcast: From Pregnancy to Murder Charge: Living Under a Total Abortion Ban
In El Salvador, home to some of the strictest anti-abortion laws in the world, nearly 200 women have been incarcerated in 26 years after having obstetric emergencies. This investigation paints a…
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El Faro English @elfaroenglish.bsky.social · 4d
El Faro English translates Central America. Subscribe now: elfaro.net/suscribe/en/
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El Faro English @elfaroenglish.bsky.social · 4d
In this interview in Tegucigalpa, Óscar Estrada, argues that political parties are uninterested in reforms stemming “from the good intentions of international cooperation, but not from a real agreement among the elites.” beta.elfaro.net/en/spotlight...
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