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Central America in Minutes — 164 episodes

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Sweeping Abuses in Costa Rica Against U.S. Deportees

2

Political Prisoner Ruth López Hits One Year in Bukele’s Dungeons

3

A Friend to Trump, Netanhayu, and Bukele Takes Office in Costa Rica

4

Guatemala Turns the Page After Eight Years of Consuelo Porras

5

Mass Trial for Collective Gang Crimes Begins in El Salvador

6

Remember Bitcoin? Now Bukele’s All In on A.I.

7

After Trump Pardon, Hernández Appeals to Court of Public Opinion

8

Mounting Civilian Death Toll in U.S. Boat Strikes

9

At the End of the Maras

10

Bukele Dismisses Findings of Crimes against Humanity

11

Honduras Guilty Again for Dispossessing Garifunas

12

Judge Denounces Death Threats after Halting Trump on TPS

13

U.N. Experts Warn of Illegal Adoptions Tied to Guatemalan AG

14

Nicaragua Accused of “State Terrorism” in Murder of Exile

15

Nicaragua Gets Mixed Signals from Trump

16

Bukele Celebrates a Hardly-Reciprocal Trade Deal with Trump

17

Rodrigo Chaves’ “Heir” in Costa Rica Outruns the Pack

18

Honduras Appeals to Trump Weeks Before Transfer of Power

19

Trump’s Invasion of Venezuela Polarizes Central America

20

How a White House Lie About “Sex Changes” in Guatemala Helped Decimate USAID

21

Anatomy of (Yet Another) Disputed Election in Honduras

22

Irrefutable Images | Letter from the Editor

23

Bukele and Washington: Honeymoon, Breakup, and Back Together

24

Honduran Army Chief Pushes to Run Parallel Vote Count

25

Torn Apart Under Trump Six Years Ago, A Guatemalan Father and Son Still Hope to Reunite

26

Gang Jailbreak in Guatemala Engulfs Arévalo in Security Crisis

27

Everyday Cruelty | Letter from the Editor

28

Two Years of Siege at the Guatemalan Electoral Tribunal

29

The Deportation of Mario Guevara: Where Attacks on Immigrants and Journalists Collide

30

From Pregnancy to Murder Charge: Living Under a Total Abortion Ban

31

End of TPS Exposes Over 50,000 Hondurans, Nicaraguans to Deportation

32

Six Threats to the Election in Honduras

33

No Right to a Funeral in Nicaragua

34

DEA Hits Costa Rica Ex-Intelligence Chief with Narco Charges

35

Sweeping Conviction Punishes Guatemalan Children’s Home Fire

36

One Week Watching Bukele on Prime Time TV

37

Bukele, Maduro, and Trump See Opportunity in Prisoner Swap

38

El Salvador: No Country for Human Rights

39

Trump and Bukele Leave Venezuelans in CECOT in Legal Limbo

40

Nicaragua, Guatemala, El Salvador: The Trifecta of Exile

41

Trump Strikes New Third-Country Asylum Deals in Honduras, Guatemala

42

Chiquita Banana Strike Leaders Arrested in Panama

43

Honduras Copy-Pastes Bukele’s CECOT Marketing

44

The Rise of Rosario Murillo, Co-Dictator of Nicaragua

45

Prosecutors Encircle Defiant Costa Rican President

46

Bukele and Guatemalan AG Compare Notes on Lawfare

47

Bukele Re-Ups Old Plans to Tax NGOs as Foreign Agents

48

Over 1,000 Days without Freedom for Guatemala’s Top Journalist

49

In Bukele’s El Salvador, Defying Court Orders Is an Old Tune

50

Seven Years of Nicaraguan Repression in UN Hot Seat

51

For a Portrait of Bukele, Look to His Prisons

52

Panama Grants Fugitive President Safe Passage to Nicaragua

53

Bukele and Musk Bond over Attacks on U.S. Judiciary

54

Honduras Plays the Blame Game in Turbulent Primaries

55

Just How Close Is Honduras to a China Trade Deal?

56

Salvadoran Police Re-Arrest Activist Who Sued Director of Prisons for Torture

57

Back to US Prison for Guatemalan Narco-Congressman

58

Honduran Campesinos Under Siege in Bajo Aguán

59

Nicaragua’s “Angel of Death” Falls from Grace

60

Bukele Gets Pat on the Back from Trump White House

61

Inter-American Court Condemns Daniel Ortega’s 2011 Reelection

62

Biden Extends TPS for El Salvador but not Honduras, Nicaragua

63

Panama and Honduras Set Red Lines for Trump

64

Argentinian Court Signs International Arrest Warrants for 2018 State Crimes in Nicaragua

65

2025 Elections: Xiomara Castro’s Big Test

66

With IMF Deal, Bukele Rolls Back Bitcoin Ambitions

67

A Guatemalan Witchhunt Against Journalists

68

Tuberculosis Rocks Salvadoran Prisons

69

Bukele Tightens Grip On Internet

70

Police Crimes Reign Under Honduran State of Exception

71

Ortega’s Onslaught Against Catholic Priests Marches On

72

Central America Tries to Shake Trump’s Hand

73

Welcome to Central America in Minutes

74

Genocide On Trial Again in Guatemala

75

Guatemalan Newspaperman Jose Rubén Zamora Released from Prison at Last

76

Castro Responds to Evidence of Drug Ties in Inner Circle by Alleging Coup Conspiracy

77

El Salvador Overpaid $7 Million to Shell Company for Undelivered Milk During Pandemic

78

Biden and Trump Camps Jockey for Favor in Bukele’s New El Salvador

79

A Dictatorship Is Born

80

Beneath Bukele’s Popularity, Tension and Fear Cloud His Second Inauguration

81

Bukele’s Anti-Corruption Smokescreen

82

The Environment in War: No Longer a Silent Victim

83

Opposition Seeks Path Forward After Electoral Rout in El Salvador

84

TSE President Admitted Irregularities and “Possible Intervention” in Salvadoran Election

85

In Election by His Own Rules, Four-Fifths of Salvadorans Give Bukele a Second Term

86

With Reelection Almost Certain, Sunday Vote Will Test Extent of Salvadoran Opposition

87

Salvadoran Government Conspired with Gang Leader to Recapture ‘Crook’ through Jalisco Cartel

88

MS-13 Leader “Crook” Asked for More Time to Plead His Case in U.S. Trial

89

Espíritu Santo Island against the Sergeant

90

International Community Places No Hurdles to Reelection for Bukele

91

Interpol Tied Nuevas Ideas Legislator to Money Laundering and Human Trafficking

92

Verdict in Guatemala Expected for Massacre from Ríos Montt Years

93

US Sanctions Judge and Prosecutor Involved in Attempted Electoral Coup in Guatemala

94

Salvadoran Prosecutors Accuse Top Prison Bureau Aide of Selling Benefits to Narcos

95

Arévalo Breaks into Presidential Runoff for Center-Left Surprise in Guatemala

96

Allegations of Electoral Court Bribery Fuel Doubts about Legitimacy of Guatemalan Election

97

Zamora’s Sentence Hits Guatemalan Journalism Just Ahead of General Election

98

Bukele Cuts 30% of Assembly Seats and 83% of Mayors Months Before Elections

99

Bukele Cuts 30% of Assembly Seats and 83% of Mayors Months Before Elections

100

Civil Society Leads Push for Unified Opposition Candidate in El Salvador

101

You’ve Seen Bukele’s Twitter. We Should Talk About His YouTube Tricks.

102

A Quarter Century of Journalism

103

elPeriódico Forced to Close as Ninth Defense Attorney Takes on Zamora Case

104

Where Does Central America Fit in a Multipolar World?

105

Beatriz Trial in Inter-American Court Defies Total Abortion Ban in El Salvador

106

El Faro Moves to Costa Rica

107

US Arrests One of the Army Officers Accused of the El Mozote Massacre

108

Exclusion of Presidential Candidates Stains June Guatemalan Elections

109

“If the FMLN runs for the presidency, it is doing Bukele’s bidding”

110

US Senate and House Urge CABEI to Cut Off Funding to Daniel Ortega

111

The Other Beatrices

112

Crypto Barons Get a Diplomatic Façade in El Salvador

113

Bukele Looks to Eliminate Four-Fifths of El Salvador Municipalities

114

Guatemala, Crossroads of the Venezuelan Exodus

115

Bukele's Pact with the Gangs Lasted Three Massacres

116

El Salvador Government Protection of MS-13 from Extradition Emerges in DOJ Indictment

117

The Salvadoran Diplomatic Corps Is Plagued with Paranoia

118

Company Owned by Key Bukele Officials Received $500K from President Funes’ Black Budget

119

Salvadoran Police Confirmed Arbitrary Arrest of Bricklayer, but He Remains Detained Nine Months Later

120

Political Prisoners Expelled from Nicaragua Land in US Limbo

121

Apple Warned Salvadoran Supreme Court Judge of Possible Pegasus Infection

122

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

123

Bukele Government Dismantled Gang Presence in El Salvador

124

El Salvador Obtained Three New Spyware Tools in 2020 from Israeli Intermediary

125

Gang Divisions Provoked 2021 Massacre and Almost Toppled Negotiations with Bukele

126

The Inside Story of How El Salvador’s Official Crypto Wallet Crashed and Failed

127

Honduras and El Salvador on same wavelength

128

15 Members of El Faro Sue NSO in US Federal Court for Pegasus Hacks

129

Under Xiomara Castro, Honduran Garifunas Receive JOH-Style Military Eviction

130

Police Documents Prove Illegal Release of MS-13 Leader in El Salvador

131

Biden closes door on Ortega's gold

132

During March Massacre, El Salvador Government Took Four MS-13 Leaders Out of Prison

133

Bukele Announces a Dictatorship

134

Central America and US Avoid Condemning Bukele’s 2024 Candidacy

135

Bukele Announces He Will Seek Reelection in 2024 despite Constitutional Ban

136

US Senate Poised to Finally Confirm Four Ambassadors to Central America

137

Two Months after Wrongful Arrest, Don Paco Returned Home in a Casket

138

Salvadoran AG Buried Evidence of Corruption in Covid-19 Food Contracts Worth $22.7 Million

139

The Case against Journalist José Rubén Zamora Was Built in 72 Hours

140

Rodrigo Chaves Plays Central American Hardball with the Press

141

State of Exception Files: Hundreds Arrested for Prior Convictions or “Looking Nervous”

142

Guatemala Detains Its Most Prominent Journalist

143

The Survivors of Cayos Cochinos

144

Former President Manuel Zelaya Is Back on Stage in Honduras

145

El Salvador Government Still Floats Possibility of IMF Deal

146

Transnational Escape of MS-13 Leader “Crook” Caught on Social Media

147

The Guatemalan Link between Jalisco New Generation Cartel and FARC Dissidents

148

Diary of a Public Defender Drowning in the State of Exception

149

Ortega Finds Complicity in Central American Presidents

150

“Talking about the Past Restores People’s Dignity”

151

Bukele Fiddles while the Crypto Market Burns

152

Central America Talks Back to Biden

153

New Targets of Attorney General’s Lawfare against Guatemalan Justice

154

Gang Extraditions Will Unify Washington against Bukele

155

Summit in Los Angeles Showcases Biden’s Central America Problem

156

El Salvador Supreme Court Magistrate was Former Defense Attorney for Head of MS-13

157

Collapsed Government Talks with MS-13 Sparked Record Homicides in El Salvador, Audios Reveal

158

Will the State of Exception Be the New Normal?

159

Four Bleak Aprils in Nicaragua

160

Gang Expert Flees El Salvador after Threats from Bukele

161

Gag Order for Journalism on Gangs

162

Costa Rica Chooses Trump-Inspired Outsider

163

No New Ideas after El Salvador’s Homicide Crisis

164

Is Bukele's Gang Truce Unraveling?