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Central America in Minutes — 181 episodes
Millions of Central Americans Go Hungry
Guatemala Receives First Shipment of U.S. Weapons in Decades
Stripped of Nationality in Nicaragua, Then Detained by ICE
Trump Stalls on TPS Decision for El Salvador
El Niño Drought Devastates Central America
U.S. Deports Mexican Nationals to Central America
United States Tip-toes Around Military Cooperation with El Salvador
NYT and WOLA Indicate U.S. Boat Strikes Received Logistical Support from El Salvador
Juan Orlando Hernández Returns to Honduras
Who Can Stop Murillo and Ortega in Nicaragua?
What Will Trump Decide on TPS for El Salvador?
Salvadoran Political Prisoner Ruth López’s Life Is At Risk
Bukele Sets Stage for Third Term in El Salvador
Trump Diplomats Depart an OAS Mission in Turmoil
Honduras Cracks Down on Protests Tied to Land Conflicts
Nicaraguan Political Prisoners Keep Dying in Regime Custody
Arévalo Downplays Report of Imminent Joint U.S. Military Strikes
Sweeping Abuses in Costa Rica Against U.S. Deportees
Political Prisoner Ruth López Hits One Year in Bukele’s Dungeons
A Friend to Trump, Netanhayu, and Bukele Takes Office in Costa Rica
Guatemala Turns the Page After Eight Years of Consuelo Porras
Mass Trial for Collective Gang Crimes Begins in El Salvador
Remember Bitcoin? Now Bukele’s All In on A.I.
After Trump Pardon, Hernández Appeals to Court of Public Opinion
Mounting Civilian Death Toll in U.S. Boat Strikes
At the End of the Maras
Bukele Dismisses Findings of Crimes against Humanity
Honduras Guilty Again for Dispossessing Garifunas
Judge Denounces Death Threats after Halting Trump on TPS
U.N. Experts Warn of Illegal Adoptions Tied to Guatemalan AG
Nicaragua Accused of “State Terrorism” in Murder of Exile
Nicaragua Gets Mixed Signals from Trump
Bukele Celebrates a Hardly-Reciprocal Trade Deal with Trump
Rodrigo Chaves’ “Heir” in Costa Rica Outruns the Pack
Honduras Appeals to Trump Weeks Before Transfer of Power
Trump’s Invasion of Venezuela Polarizes Central America
How a White House Lie About “Sex Changes” in Guatemala Helped Decimate USAID
Anatomy of (Yet Another) Disputed Election in Honduras
Irrefutable Images | Letter from the Editor
Bukele and Washington: Honeymoon, Breakup, and Back Together
Honduran Army Chief Pushes to Run Parallel Vote Count
Torn Apart Under Trump Six Years Ago, A Guatemalan Father and Son Still Hope to Reunite
Gang Jailbreak in Guatemala Engulfs Arévalo in Security Crisis
Everyday Cruelty | Letter from the Editor
Two Years of Siege at the Guatemalan Electoral Tribunal
The Deportation of Mario Guevara: Where Attacks on Immigrants and Journalists Collide
From Pregnancy to Murder Charge: Living Under a Total Abortion Ban
End of TPS Exposes Over 50,000 Hondurans, Nicaraguans to Deportation
Six Threats to the Election in Honduras
No Right to a Funeral in Nicaragua
DEA Hits Costa Rica Ex-Intelligence Chief with Narco Charges
Sweeping Conviction Punishes Guatemalan Children’s Home Fire
One Week Watching Bukele on Prime Time TV
Bukele, Maduro, and Trump See Opportunity in Prisoner Swap
El Salvador: No Country for Human Rights
Trump and Bukele Leave Venezuelans in CECOT in Legal Limbo
Nicaragua, Guatemala, El Salvador: The Trifecta of Exile
Trump Strikes New Third-Country Asylum Deals in Honduras, Guatemala
Chiquita Banana Strike Leaders Arrested in Panama
Honduras Copy-Pastes Bukele’s CECOT Marketing
The Rise of Rosario Murillo, Co-Dictator of Nicaragua
Prosecutors Encircle Defiant Costa Rican President
Bukele and Guatemalan AG Compare Notes on Lawfare
Bukele Re-Ups Old Plans to Tax NGOs as Foreign Agents
Over 1,000 Days without Freedom for Guatemala’s Top Journalist
In Bukele’s El Salvador, Defying Court Orders Is an Old Tune
Seven Years of Nicaraguan Repression in UN Hot Seat
For a Portrait of Bukele, Look to His Prisons
Panama Grants Fugitive President Safe Passage to Nicaragua
Bukele and Musk Bond over Attacks on U.S. Judiciary
Honduras Plays the Blame Game in Turbulent Primaries
Just How Close Is Honduras to a China Trade Deal?
Salvadoran Police Re-Arrest Activist Who Sued Director of Prisons for Torture
Back to US Prison for Guatemalan Narco-Congressman
Honduran Campesinos Under Siege in Bajo Aguán
Nicaragua’s “Angel of Death” Falls from Grace
Bukele Gets Pat on the Back from Trump White House
Inter-American Court Condemns Daniel Ortega’s 2011 Reelection
Biden Extends TPS for El Salvador but not Honduras, Nicaragua
Panama and Honduras Set Red Lines for Trump
Argentinian Court Signs International Arrest Warrants for 2018 State Crimes in Nicaragua
2025 Elections: Xiomara Castro’s Big Test
With IMF Deal, Bukele Rolls Back Bitcoin Ambitions
A Guatemalan Witchhunt Against Journalists
Tuberculosis Rocks Salvadoran Prisons
Bukele Tightens Grip On Internet
Police Crimes Reign Under Honduran State of Exception
Ortega’s Onslaught Against Catholic Priests Marches On
Central America Tries to Shake Trump’s Hand
Welcome to Central America in Minutes
Genocide On Trial Again in Guatemala
Guatemalan Newspaperman Jose Rubén Zamora Released from Prison at Last
Castro Responds to Evidence of Drug Ties in Inner Circle by Alleging Coup Conspiracy
El Salvador Overpaid $7 Million to Shell Company for Undelivered Milk During Pandemic
Biden and Trump Camps Jockey for Favor in Bukele’s New El Salvador
A Dictatorship Is Born
Beneath Bukele’s Popularity, Tension and Fear Cloud His Second Inauguration
Bukele’s Anti-Corruption Smokescreen
The Environment in War: No Longer a Silent Victim
Opposition Seeks Path Forward After Electoral Rout in El Salvador
TSE President Admitted Irregularities and “Possible Intervention” in Salvadoran Election
In Election by His Own Rules, Four-Fifths of Salvadorans Give Bukele a Second Term
With Reelection Almost Certain, Sunday Vote Will Test Extent of Salvadoran Opposition
Salvadoran Government Conspired with Gang Leader to Recapture ‘Crook’ through Jalisco Cartel
MS-13 Leader “Crook” Asked for More Time to Plead His Case in U.S. Trial
Espíritu Santo Island against the Sergeant
International Community Places No Hurdles to Reelection for Bukele
Interpol Tied Nuevas Ideas Legislator to Money Laundering and Human Trafficking
Verdict in Guatemala Expected for Massacre from Ríos Montt Years
US Sanctions Judge and Prosecutor Involved in Attempted Electoral Coup in Guatemala
Salvadoran Prosecutors Accuse Top Prison Bureau Aide of Selling Benefits to Narcos
Arévalo Breaks into Presidential Runoff for Center-Left Surprise in Guatemala
Allegations of Electoral Court Bribery Fuel Doubts about Legitimacy of Guatemalan Election
Zamora’s Sentence Hits Guatemalan Journalism Just Ahead of General Election
Bukele Cuts 30% of Assembly Seats and 83% of Mayors Months Before Elections
Bukele Cuts 30% of Assembly Seats and 83% of Mayors Months Before Elections
Civil Society Leads Push for Unified Opposition Candidate in El Salvador
You’ve Seen Bukele’s Twitter. We Should Talk About His YouTube Tricks.
A Quarter Century of Journalism
elPeriódico Forced to Close as Ninth Defense Attorney Takes on Zamora Case
Where Does Central America Fit in a Multipolar World?
Beatriz Trial in Inter-American Court Defies Total Abortion Ban in El Salvador
El Faro Moves to Costa Rica
US Arrests One of the Army Officers Accused of the El Mozote Massacre
Exclusion of Presidential Candidates Stains June Guatemalan Elections
“If the FMLN runs for the presidency, it is doing Bukele’s bidding”
US Senate and House Urge CABEI to Cut Off Funding to Daniel Ortega
The Other Beatrices
Crypto Barons Get a Diplomatic Façade in El Salvador
Bukele Looks to Eliminate Four-Fifths of El Salvador Municipalities
Guatemala, Crossroads of the Venezuelan Exodus
Bukele's Pact with the Gangs Lasted Three Massacres
El Salvador Government Protection of MS-13 from Extradition Emerges in DOJ Indictment
The Salvadoran Diplomatic Corps Is Plagued with Paranoia
Company Owned by Key Bukele Officials Received $500K from President Funes’ Black Budget
Salvadoran Police Confirmed Arbitrary Arrest of Bricklayer, but He Remains Detained Nine Months Later
Political Prisoners Expelled from Nicaragua Land in US Limbo
Apple Warned Salvadoran Supreme Court Judge of Possible Pegasus Infection
Exile, Prison, and Espionage: The Cost of Informing in Central America
Bukele Government Dismantled Gang Presence in El Salvador
El Salvador Obtained Three New Spyware Tools in 2020 from Israeli Intermediary
Gang Divisions Provoked 2021 Massacre and Almost Toppled Negotiations with Bukele
The Inside Story of How El Salvador’s Official Crypto Wallet Crashed and Failed
Honduras and El Salvador on same wavelength
15 Members of El Faro Sue NSO in US Federal Court for Pegasus Hacks
Under Xiomara Castro, Honduran Garifunas Receive JOH-Style Military Eviction
Police Documents Prove Illegal Release of MS-13 Leader in El Salvador
Biden closes door on Ortega's gold
During March Massacre, El Salvador Government Took Four MS-13 Leaders Out of Prison
Bukele Announces a Dictatorship
Central America and US Avoid Condemning Bukele’s 2024 Candidacy
Bukele Announces He Will Seek Reelection in 2024 despite Constitutional Ban
US Senate Poised to Finally Confirm Four Ambassadors to Central America
Two Months after Wrongful Arrest, Don Paco Returned Home in a Casket
Salvadoran AG Buried Evidence of Corruption in Covid-19 Food Contracts Worth $22.7 Million
The Case against Journalist José Rubén Zamora Was Built in 72 Hours
Rodrigo Chaves Plays Central American Hardball with the Press
State of Exception Files: Hundreds Arrested for Prior Convictions or “Looking Nervous”
Guatemala Detains Its Most Prominent Journalist
The Survivors of Cayos Cochinos
Former President Manuel Zelaya Is Back on Stage in Honduras
El Salvador Government Still Floats Possibility of IMF Deal
Transnational Escape of MS-13 Leader “Crook” Caught on Social Media
The Guatemalan Link between Jalisco New Generation Cartel and FARC Dissidents
Diary of a Public Defender Drowning in the State of Exception
Ortega Finds Complicity in Central American Presidents
“Talking about the Past Restores People’s Dignity”
Bukele Fiddles while the Crypto Market Burns
Central America Talks Back to Biden
New Targets of Attorney General’s Lawfare against Guatemalan Justice
Gang Extraditions Will Unify Washington against Bukele
Summit in Los Angeles Showcases Biden’s Central America Problem
El Salvador Supreme Court Magistrate was Former Defense Attorney for Head of MS-13
Collapsed Government Talks with MS-13 Sparked Record Homicides in El Salvador, Audios Reveal
Will the State of Exception Be the New Normal?
Four Bleak Aprils in Nicaragua
Gang Expert Flees El Salvador after Threats from Bukele
Gag Order for Journalism on Gangs
Costa Rica Chooses Trump-Inspired Outsider
No New Ideas after El Salvador’s Homicide Crisis
Is Bukele's Gang Truce Unraveling?