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Central America in Minutes — 174 episodes

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NYT and WOLA Indicate U.S. Boat Strikes Received Logistical Support from El Salvador

2

Juan Orlando Hernández Returns to Honduras

3

Who Can Stop Murillo and Ortega in Nicaragua?

4

What Will Trump Decide on TPS for El Salvador?

5

Salvadoran Political Prisoner Ruth López’s Life Is At Risk

6

Bukele Sets Stage for Third Term in El Salvador

7

Trump Diplomats Depart an OAS Mission in Turmoil

8

Honduras Cracks Down on Protests Tied to Land Conflicts

9

Nicaraguan Political Prisoners Keep Dying in Regime Custody

10

Arévalo Downplays Report of Imminent Joint U.S. Military Strikes

11

Sweeping Abuses in Costa Rica Against U.S. Deportees

12

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

13

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

14

Guatemala Turns the Page After Eight Years of Consuelo Porras

15

Mass Trial for Collective Gang Crimes Begins in El Salvador

16

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

17

After Trump Pardon, Hernández Appeals to Court of Public Opinion

18

Mounting Civilian Death Toll in U.S. Boat Strikes

19

At the End of the Maras

20

Bukele Dismisses Findings of Crimes against Humanity

21

Honduras Guilty Again for Dispossessing Garifunas

22

Judge Denounces Death Threats after Halting Trump on TPS

23

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

24

Nicaragua Accused of “State Terrorism” in Murder of Exile

25

Nicaragua Gets Mixed Signals from Trump

26

Bukele Celebrates a Hardly-Reciprocal Trade Deal with Trump

27

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

28

Honduras Appeals to Trump Weeks Before Transfer of Power

29

Trump’s Invasion of Venezuela Polarizes Central America

30

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

31

Anatomy of (Yet Another) Disputed Election in Honduras

32

Irrefutable Images | Letter from the Editor

33

Bukele and Washington: Honeymoon, Breakup, and Back Together

34

Honduran Army Chief Pushes to Run Parallel Vote Count

35

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

36

Gang Jailbreak in Guatemala Engulfs Arévalo in Security Crisis

37

Everyday Cruelty | Letter from the Editor

38

Two Years of Siege at the Guatemalan Electoral Tribunal

39

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

40

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

41

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

42

Six Threats to the Election in Honduras

43

No Right to a Funeral in Nicaragua

44

DEA Hits Costa Rica Ex-Intelligence Chief with Narco Charges

45

Sweeping Conviction Punishes Guatemalan Children’s Home Fire

46

One Week Watching Bukele on Prime Time TV

47

Bukele, Maduro, and Trump See Opportunity in Prisoner Swap

48

El Salvador: No Country for Human Rights

49

Trump and Bukele Leave Venezuelans in CECOT in Legal Limbo

50

Nicaragua, Guatemala, El Salvador: The Trifecta of Exile

51

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

52

Chiquita Banana Strike Leaders Arrested in Panama

53

Honduras Copy-Pastes Bukele’s CECOT Marketing

54

The Rise of Rosario Murillo, Co-Dictator of Nicaragua

55

Prosecutors Encircle Defiant Costa Rican President

56

Bukele and Guatemalan AG Compare Notes on Lawfare

57

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

58

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

59

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

60

Seven Years of Nicaraguan Repression in UN Hot Seat

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For a Portrait of Bukele, Look to His Prisons

62

Panama Grants Fugitive President Safe Passage to Nicaragua

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

64

Honduras Plays the Blame Game in Turbulent Primaries

65

Just How Close Is Honduras to a China Trade Deal?

66

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

67

Back to US Prison for Guatemalan Narco-Congressman

68

Honduran Campesinos Under Siege in Bajo Aguán

69

Nicaragua’s “Angel of Death” Falls from Grace

70

Bukele Gets Pat on the Back from Trump White House

71

Inter-American Court Condemns Daniel Ortega’s 2011 Reelection

72

Biden Extends TPS for El Salvador but not Honduras, Nicaragua

73

Panama and Honduras Set Red Lines for Trump

74

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

75

2025 Elections: Xiomara Castro’s Big Test

76

With IMF Deal, Bukele Rolls Back Bitcoin Ambitions

77

A Guatemalan Witchhunt Against Journalists

78

Tuberculosis Rocks Salvadoran Prisons

79

Bukele Tightens Grip On Internet

80

Police Crimes Reign Under Honduran State of Exception

81

Ortega’s Onslaught Against Catholic Priests Marches On

82

Central America Tries to Shake Trump’s Hand

83

Welcome to Central America in Minutes

84

Genocide On Trial Again in Guatemala

85

Guatemalan Newspaperman Jose Rubén Zamora Released from Prison at Last

86

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

87

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

88

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

89

A Dictatorship Is Born

90

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

91

Bukele’s Anti-Corruption Smokescreen

92

The Environment in War: No Longer a Silent Victim

93

Opposition Seeks Path Forward After Electoral Rout in El Salvador

94

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

95

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

96

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

97

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

98

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

99

Espíritu Santo Island against the Sergeant

100

International Community Places No Hurdles to Reelection for Bukele

101

Interpol Tied Nuevas Ideas Legislator to Money Laundering and Human Trafficking

102

Verdict in Guatemala Expected for Massacre from Ríos Montt Years

103

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

104

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

105

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

106

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

107

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

108

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

109

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

110

Civil Society Leads Push for Unified Opposition Candidate in El Salvador

111

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

112

A Quarter Century of Journalism

113

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

114

Where Does Central America Fit in a Multipolar World?

115

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

116

El Faro Moves to Costa Rica

117

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

118

Exclusion of Presidential Candidates Stains June Guatemalan Elections

119

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

120

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

121

The Other Beatrices

122

Crypto Barons Get a Diplomatic Façade in El Salvador

123

Bukele Looks to Eliminate Four-Fifths of El Salvador Municipalities

124

Guatemala, Crossroads of the Venezuelan Exodus

125

Bukele's Pact with the Gangs Lasted Three Massacres

126

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

127

The Salvadoran Diplomatic Corps Is Plagued with Paranoia

128

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

129

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

130

Political Prisoners Expelled from Nicaragua Land in US Limbo

131

Apple Warned Salvadoran Supreme Court Judge of Possible Pegasus Infection

132

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

133

Bukele Government Dismantled Gang Presence in El Salvador

134

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

135

Gang Divisions Provoked 2021 Massacre and Almost Toppled Negotiations with Bukele

136

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

137

Honduras and El Salvador on same wavelength

138

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

139

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

140

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

141

Biden closes door on Ortega's gold

142

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

143

Bukele Announces a Dictatorship

144

Central America and US Avoid Condemning Bukele’s 2024 Candidacy

145

Bukele Announces He Will Seek Reelection in 2024 despite Constitutional Ban

146

US Senate Poised to Finally Confirm Four Ambassadors to Central America

147

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

148

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

149

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

150

Rodrigo Chaves Plays Central American Hardball with the Press

151

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

152

Guatemala Detains Its Most Prominent Journalist

153

The Survivors of Cayos Cochinos

154

Former President Manuel Zelaya Is Back on Stage in Honduras

155

El Salvador Government Still Floats Possibility of IMF Deal

156

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

157

The Guatemalan Link between Jalisco New Generation Cartel and FARC Dissidents

158

Diary of a Public Defender Drowning in the State of Exception

159

Ortega Finds Complicity in Central American Presidents

160

“Talking about the Past Restores People’s Dignity”

161

Bukele Fiddles while the Crypto Market Burns

162

Central America Talks Back to Biden

163

New Targets of Attorney General’s Lawfare against Guatemalan Justice

164

Gang Extraditions Will Unify Washington against Bukele

165

Summit in Los Angeles Showcases Biden’s Central America Problem

166

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

167

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

168

Will the State of Exception Be the New Normal?

169

Four Bleak Aprils in Nicaragua

170

Gang Expert Flees El Salvador after Threats from Bukele

171

Gag Order for Journalism on Gangs

172

Costa Rica Chooses Trump-Inspired Outsider

173

No New Ideas after El Salvador’s Homicide Crisis

174

Is Bukele's Gang Truce Unraveling?