Exile, Prison, and Espionage: The Cost of Informing in Central America

Nicaragua is the destination where the Central American hopes to never arrive: more than 160 journalists in exile and 54 news organizations shuttered by the dictatorship of Daniel Ortega. In El Salvador, there are multiple alerts that the country is headed in that direction: mass deployment of Pegasus spyware, defamation and the mounting of criminal accusations against journalists, and the closure of news programs. In this podcast produced by El Hilo in collaboration with El Faro English, three journalists in two countries give their first-hand accounts of exile, harassment, and persecution. This episode, part of a project to cover challenges to the free press in the region, was co-produced by El Hilo and El Faro, with support from the Canadian Fund for Local Initiatives.