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Honduran Parties Negotiate Non-Violent Exit to Elections Won by the Right Three days after the election, the first results in Honduras do not give a presidential result, but do project defeat for Rixi Moncada of Libre. With the final tally far from sight, political and…

Three days after the Honduran election, the preliminary results do not give a presidential result, but do project defeat for Libre. Political and diplomatic sources point to negotiations to avoid violence and secure the key to the coming legislature.
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Honduran Parties Negotiate Non-Violent Exit to Elections Won by the Right Three days after the election, the first results in Honduras do not give a presidential result, but do project defeat for Rixi Moncada of Libre. With the final tally far from sight, political and dipl...

Three days after the Honduran election, the preliminary results do not give a presidential result, but do project defeat for Libre. Political and diplomatic sources point to negotiations to avoid violence and secure the key to the coming legislature. beta.elfaro.net/en/central-a...

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The Sandinistas and the Rubble of Revolution The fall of the Sandinista government in 1990 ushered in the dramatic end of an era in Central America. As revolutionary movements wound down in Nicaragua, Guatemala, and El Salvador, Central…

The fall of the Sandinista government in 1990 ushered in the dramatic end of an era. Central Americans were left asking why the armed struggle had been fought, what it had wrought, and whether it had been worth it. They’re still asking. beta.elfaro.net/en/the-tertu...

Guatemala’s Tarmac of Tears In Guatemala City, Trump’s deportees are in tears, disoriented, or greeted by sobbing relatives. People who, in the trite world of simplistic metaphors, had a dream that they called American. When…

In Guatemala City, deportees are in tears, disoriented, or greeted by sobbing relatives. People who, in the world of simplistic metaphors, had a dream that they called American. When they leave that place, that dream, if it was one, is over. #efPhoto beta.elfaro.net/en/central-a...

Irrefutable Images One woman had no family left in Guatemala. Some men were snatched from their jobs. Every deportee was distraught, confused, or angry. When Guatemalans flip the coin of abandonment, they often find…

One woman had no family left in Guatemala. Some men were snatched from their jobs. Every deportee was distraught, confused, or angry. When Guatemalans flip the coin of abandonment, they often find brutality on the other side. beta.elfaro.net/en/letter-fr...

Honduras Heads to Election Day Amid Infighting, Lawfare, Fraud Accusations Honduras approaches the Sunday elections with last-minute institutional infighting, criminal investigations, accusations of fraud, and under a three-year state of exception. With Trump’s Venezuela…

In Honduras, this weekend capped off a campaign season heavy on vitriol and criss-crossing claims of foul play, but light on concrete proposals.
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Irrefutable Images One woman had no family left in Guatemala. Some men were snatched from their jobs. Every deportee was distraught, confused, or angry. When Guatemalans flip the coin of abandonment, they often find…

One woman had no family left in Guatemala. Some men were snatched from their jobs. Every deportee was distraught, confused, or angry. When Guatemalans flip the coin of abandonment, they often find brutality on the other side. beta.elfaro.net/en/letter-fr...

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Death Squad Agent Accuses Salvadoran Mayor of Paying for Three-Dozen Murders A cooperating witness from Halcón 32, a death squad within the Salvadoran Police, confessed to 97 murders, including a priest, businessmen, and alleged gang members. He told prosecutors that Salvador…

Salvador Menéndez, accused of financing a death squad, became mayor in 2012 in El Salvador. He was re-elected in 2024, surviving Bukele’s four-fifths reduction of the number of municipalities.
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The Sandinistas and the Rubble of Revolution The fall of the Sandinista government in 1990 ushered in the dramatic end of an era in Central America. As revolutionary movements wound down in Nicaragua, Guatemala, and El Salvador, Central…

The fall of the Sandinista government in 1990 ushered in the dramatic end of an era. Central Americans were left asking why the armed struggle had been fought, what it had wrought, and whether it had been worth it. They’re still asking. beta.elfaro.net/en/the-tertu...

Guatemala’s Tarmac of Tears In Guatemala City, Trump’s deportees are in tears, disoriented, or greeted by sobbing relatives. People who, in the trite world of simplistic metaphors, had a dream that they called American. When…

In Guatemala City, deportees are in tears, disoriented, or greeted by sobbing relatives. People who, in the world of simplistic metaphors, had a dream that they called American. When they leave that place, that dream, if it was one, is over. #efPhoto beta.elfaro.net/en/central-a...

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Podcast: Bukele and Washington: Honeymoon, Breakup, and Back Together Nayib Bukele has dealt with three U.S. administrations. He went from conservative darling to pariah under the early Biden years’ anti-corruption agenda. Outmaneuvering the Democrats, Bukele bet on…

Bukele has dealt with three US administrations. He went from conservative darling to pariah under the early Biden years’ anti-corruption agenda. Outmaneuvering the Democrats, Bukele’s bet on Trump catapulted him back to the seat of US power. beta.elfaro.net/en/a-region-...

Nine Minutes in the Fire, Eight Years For the First Light Six Guatemalan officials have now been convicted of locking dozens of girls in their cell as a fire consumed them. For eight years, the Hogar Seguro children’s home fire has symbolized a country…

Six Guatemalan officials have now been convicted of locking dozens of girls in their cell as a fire consumed them. For eight years, the Hogar Seguro children’s home fire has symbolized a country failing to care for its girls. #efPhoto beta.elfaro.net/en/by-invita...

Honduras Heads to Election Day Amid Infighting, Lawfare, Fraud Accusations Honduras approaches the Sunday elections with last-minute institutional infighting, criminal investigations, accusations of fraud, and under a three-year state of exception. With Trump’s Venezuela…

In Honduras, this weekend capped off a campaign season heavy on vitriol and criss-crossing claims of foul play, but light on concrete proposals.
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Regina José Galindo, Performance Artist: “In Guatemala, we don’t live with the truth” She walked barefoot, leaving footprints of human blood outside the Constitutional Court. She underwent surgery to reconstruct her hymen and become a virgin again. She had a doctor injected her in the…

She left footprints of blood outside the Constitutional Court. She underwent surgery to reconstruct her hymen. A doctor injected anesthesia as she read testimonies of genocide. Guatemalan artist Regina José Galindo on the role of political art. beta.elfaro.net/en/spotlight...

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The Sandinistas and the Rubble of Revolution The fall of the Sandinista government in 1990 ushered in the dramatic end of an era in Central America. As revolutionary movements wound down in Nicaragua, Guatemala, and El Salvador, Central…

The fall of the Sandinista government in 1990 ushered in the dramatic end of an era. Central Americans were left asking why the armed struggle had been fought, what it had wrought, and whether it had been worth it. They’re still asking. beta.elfaro.net/en/the-tertu...

Honduras Heads to Election Day Amid Infighting, Lawfare, Fraud Accusations Honduras approaches the Sunday elections with last-minute institutional infighting, criminal investigations, accusations of fraud, and under a three-year state of exception. With Trump’s Venezuela…

In Honduras, this weekend capped off a campaign season heavy on vitriol and criss-crossing claims of foul play, but light on concrete proposals.
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Nine Minutes in the Fire, Eight Years For the First Light Six Guatemalan officials have now been convicted of locking dozens of girls in their cell as a fire consumed them. For eight years, the Hogar Seguro children’s home fire has symbolized a country…

Six Guatemalan officials have now been convicted of locking dozens of girls in their cell as a fire consumed them. For eight years, the Hogar Seguro children’s home fire has symbolized a country failing to care for its girls. #efPhoto beta.elfaro.net/en/by-invita...

Honduras Heads to Election Day Amid Infighting, Lawfare, Fraud Accusations Honduras approaches the Sunday elections with last-minute institutional infighting, criminal investigations, accusations of fraud, and under a three-year state of exception. With Trump’s Venezuela gunboat...

In Honduras, this weekend capped off a campaign season heavy on vitriol and criss-crossing claims of foul play, but light on concrete proposals.
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Guatemala’s Tarmac of Tears In Guatemala City, Trump’s deportees are in tears, disoriented, or greeted by sobbing relatives. People who, in the trite world of simplistic metaphors, had a dream that they called American. When…

In Guatemala City, deportees are in tears, disoriented, or greeted by sobbing relatives. People who, in the world of simplistic metaphors, had a dream that they called American. When they leave that place, that dream, if it was one, is over. #efPhoto beta.elfaro.net/en/central-a...

Death Squad Agent Accuses Salvadoran Mayor of Paying for Three-Dozen Murders A cooperating witness from Halcón 32, a death squad within the Salvadoran Police, confessed to 97 murders, including a priest, businessmen, and alleged gang members. He told prosecutors that Salvador…

A Salvadoran mayor was mentioned over 140 times in a trial against a death squad on accusations that he ordered and financed 36 murders between 2015 and 2018. Yet, no arrest warrant has been issued against him.
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Podcast: Bukele and Washington: Honeymoon, Breakup, and Back Together Nayib Bukele has dealt with three U.S. administrations. He went from conservative darling to pariah under the early Biden years’ anti-corruption agenda. Outmaneuvering the Democrats, Bukele bet on…

Bukele has dealt with three US administrations. He went from conservative darling to pariah under the early Biden years’ anti-corruption agenda. Outmaneuvering the Democrats, Bukele’s bet on Trump catapulted him back to the seat of US power. beta.elfaro.net/en/a-region-...

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