On Monday, we published Beacon, an @elfaroenglish.bsky.social magazine. That's right: despite a wave of repression in El Salvador since last year that pushed our newsroom into exile, @elfaro.net continues to produce deep reporting that translates Central America. beta.elfaro.net/en/monthly/i...

Land of Bones — Issue No. 9 — June 15, 2025

Who Will Find El Salvador’s Dead?

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Client list: Hungarian domestic intelligence, ICE, the U.S. military, an array of district attorneys’ offices and police departments… and the National Civil Police of El Salvador.

The Citizen Lab@citizenlab.ca · 4mo ago

NEW REPORT: “Uncovering Webloc: An Analysis of Penlink’s Ad-based Geolocation Surveillance Tech” Our research confirms that ad-based surveillance tech Webloc is used by military, intelligence, and law enforcement agencies across the globe. citizenlab.ca/research/ana...

NEW REPORT: “Uncovering Webloc: An Analysis of Penlink’s Ad-based Geolocation Surveillance Tech” Our research confirms that ad-based surveillance tech Webloc is used by military, intelligence, and law enforcement agencies across the globe. citizenlab.ca/research/ana...

Tomorrow, Frontline and El Faro may reveal more on the migration deal between Nayib Bukele and Donald Trump—and the shadow negotiations between Bukele and gangs. For Trump, it backfired fast—triggering backlash and eroding support. For Bukele: what did he gain—and at what cost? 🧵

‘Consuelo Porras Signed Irregular Adoptions of Children from Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras’ @elfaroenglish.bsky.social‬ @romangressier.com‬ #GSN #Guatemala #GSN #Guatemala_Solidarity_Network #Guatemala_Adoptions #Guatemala_Illegal_Adoptions #Guatemala_Corruption

🗞️Information is dissent. Truth is dissent. And the rigorous production of information is considered dangerous. Journalism is resistance. 🎥 Watch and read editor-in-chief @CarlosDada’s 2026 Reuters Memorial Lecture @risj_oxford here: beta.elfaro.net/en/ef-tv-en/...

Journalism as Resistance

Information is dissent. Truth is dissent. And the rigorous production of information is considered dangerous. Journalism is resistance.

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ReVista: @harvard.edu Review of Latin American Studies, published my review of Rick Rockwell’s book on Latin American journalism. Also, I noted how journalism has changed since the emergence of digital media such @elfaroenglish.bsky.social revista.drclas.harvard.edu/a-review-of-...

A Review of The History of Journalism in Latin America

While writing my MA thesis at the University of Hamburg on ideological bias in Salvadoran newspapers, I read Rick Rockwell's book, Media Power in Central America. At the time, in the late 2000s, Rockw...

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🗞️Information is dissent. Truth is dissent. And the rigorous production of information is considered dangerous. Journalism is resistance. 🎥 Watch and read editor-in-chief Carlos Dada 2026 Reuters Memorial Lecture @risj_oxford here: beta.elfaro.net/en/ef-tv-en/...

Journalism as Resistance

Information is dissent. Truth is dissent. And the rigorous production of information is considered dangerous. Journalism is resistance.

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‘U.N. Experts Warn of Illegal Adoptions Tied to Guatemalan Attorney General’ by Yuliana Ramazzini and Gabriel Labrador @elfaroenglish.bsky.social #podcast #Guatemala #Guatemala_impunity #Guatemala_adoptions #Guatemala_AG #Guatemala_Pacto_de_Corruptos #Guatemala_podcast

🎙️This week: The Inter-American Court condemns Honduras for trying to uproot Caribbean Garifunas. Guatemalan political elites battle over nominations to the tainted top court. Cristosal reports 245 cases of political persecution in El Salvador. beta.elfaro.net/en/elfaro-au...

Podcast: Bukele Dismisses Findings of Crimes against Humanity

With crimes against humanity in El Salvador on full international display, Bukele denounces the findings as a “coordinated” conspiracy. In Honduras, Chinese relations hang in the balance with the new ...

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The Shield of the Americas seeks to impose a militarized agenda against drug trafficking, writes @ricardovalp.bsky.social in #efOpinion. In return, Trump rewards certain leaders, from traditional conservatives to crypto-authoritarians, with a semblance of friendship. beta.elfaro.net/en/opinion-e...

Trump Deals In Blackmail and Flattery with Latin American Militaries

The Shield of the Americas seeks to impose a militarized agenda against drug trafficking. In return, Trump rewards certain leaders, from traditional conservatives to crypto-authoritarians, with a semb...

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Trump nominated a Florida international arbitrage attorney, hailed by Arévalo’s opponents, as ambassador to Guatemala. That same day, Arévalo deepened ties with the U.S. military, announcing a budget of $50 million for equipment purchases. 👉 This morning’s newsletter beta.elfaro.net/en/central-a...

As Opposition Lobbies MAGA in Florida, Arévalo Deepens U.S. Military Ties

On Monday, Trump nominated a Florida international arbitrage attorney, hailed by Arévalo’s opponents, as ambassador to Guatemala. That same day, Arévalo deepened ties with the U.S. military, announcin...

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The responsibility for violence should never fall on those who resist, but on the structure that targets dissent, writes exiled Nicaraguan feminist and human rights defender Claudia Vargas. #efOpinion beta.elfaro.net/en/opinion-e...

Defending Life Does Not Mean Giving Up Resistance

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🎙️This week: The Inter-American Court condemns Honduras for trying to uproot Caribbean Garifunas. Guatemalan political elites battle over nominations to the tainted top court. Cristosal reports 245 cases of political persecution in El Salvador. beta.elfaro.net/en/elfaro-au...

📸 A Photographer's Overwhelming Urge A snapshot of El Salvador from afar, Bad Bunny, and photojournalism in exile, from Víctor Peña's always stellar camera beta.elfaro.net/en/ef-photo-...

A Photographer’s Overwhelming Urge

In the last year, at least 53 journalists fled El Salvador. Now I’m a photographer in exile, another migrant among the many migrants from my country. Among the many colleagues who’ve also become migra...

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📸 In the last year, at least 53 journalists fled El Salvador. Now I’m a photographer in exile, another migrant among the many migrants from my country. Among the many colleagues who’ve also become migrants. 🖊️ Víctor Peña beta.elfaro.net/en/ef-photo-...

A Photographer’s Overwhelming Urge

In the last year, at least 53 journalists fled El Salvador. Now I’m a photographer in exile, another migrant among the many migrants from my country. Among the many colleagues who’ve also become migra...

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The Long Shadow of Dos Erres: Canadian Court Sanctions Perpetrator of 1982 Dos Erres Massacre in Guatemala -- @nsarchive.bsky.social publishes key records from the trial nsarchive.gwu.edu/briefing-boo...

The Long Shadow of Dos Erres

Washington, D.C., February 24, 2026 - After a decade-long investigation and a trial lasting more than five weeks, a federal court in Ottawa has ruled to revoke the Canadian citizenship of a Guatemalan...

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At @elfaroenglish.bsky.social, we've been closely following big stories reshaping Central America this year: the Trump-Bukele relationship, the Guatemalan security crisis, and the return to power of the National Party in Honduras. More on our front page 🗞️ elfaro.net/en

The Defense Department said that it blew up a boat in the Caribbean Sea on Monday, killing three people. The strike raised the death toll in the U.S. campaign against people it accuses, without providing evidence, of smuggling drugs at sea to at least 150. nyti.ms/4aN52ZY

U.S. Hits Another Boat in the Caribbean, Killing 3

The Defense Department did not provide evidence of its claim that the vessel was carrying drugs. At least 150 people have been killed in the campaign since September.

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📸 During Shakira’s nine-day tour in El Salvador, thousands of military and police guarded concerts, public employees and prisoners cleaned, and the Tourism Ministry used an A.I. Shakira to promote the Historic Center of San Salvador. #CentralAmericanLens beta.elfaro.net/en/ef-photo-...

📸 A girl peeks at soldiers in El Gallito, Guatemala City, under a state of siege. Across much of Central America, children grow up in the shadow of the military and its guns, on promises of curbing violence that bleed into abuses, writes Carlos Barrera. beta.elfaro.net/en/ef-photo-...

This morning in the @elfaroenglish.bsky.social newsletter: MAGA lobbying in Washington meets state secrecy in El Salvador. 👇

El Faro English@elfaroenglish.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Bukele has focused lobbying on courting MAGA politicians and “positioning narratives” in US media. He’s paying for it through a public electricity company that shields financial information through a private subsidiary. @periodistagl.bsky.social in today's newsletter beta.elfaro.net/en/el-salvad...

Bukele has focused lobbying on courting MAGA politicians and “positioning narratives” in US media. He’s paying for it through a public electricity company that shields financial information through a private subsidiary. @periodistagl.bsky.social in today's newsletter beta.elfaro.net/en/el-salvad...

Bukele Pays for MAGA Lobbying through Opaque Public Electricity Company

In Washington, Bukele has focused lobbying efforts on courting MAGA politicians and “positioning key narratives” in U.S. media. He’s now paying for it through a public electricity company that shields...

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Detention Reports has been updated to include a national map of all active ICE detention facilities that link to individual facility reports. Learn about this new feature and other new features at my latest post: austinkocher.substack.com/p/the-best-s...

“The ICE Killing the U.S. Has Already Forgotten” Starting this week, you can find Central American Lens, our photo of the week, in the @elfaroenglish.bsky.social newsletter. Subscribe: elfaro.net/suscribe/en/

El Faro English@elfaroenglish.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Last September, Silverio Villegas was gunned down by an ICE officer near Franklin Park, Chicago. The United States has already forgotten his name. Even the New York Times, the paper of record, recently identified him only as “a Mexican immigrant.” beta.elfaro.net/en/ef-photo-...

Last September, Silverio Villegas was gunned down by an ICE officer near Franklin Park, Chicago. The United States has already forgotten his name. Even the New York Times, the paper of record, recently identified him only as “a Mexican immigrant.” beta.elfaro.net/en/ef-photo-...

The ICE Killing the U.S. Has Already Forgotten

Last September, Silverio Villegas was gunned down by an ICE officer near Franklin Park, Chicago. The United States has already forgotten his name. Even the New York Times, the paper of record, recentl...

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New trade deals with Trump are taking center stage in US policy in Central America. Don’t be surprised if Honduras soon follows suit. In the case of Nicaragua, no deal of course, but the US hasn’t wanted to touch CAFTA. More on this week’s #CentralAmericaInMinutes

El Faro English@elfaroenglish.bsky.social · 6mo ago

🎙️This week: Trump sends mixed signals to Nicaragua on trade and anti-narcotics. Costa Rican President-elect Laura Fernández floats a state of exception modeled after El Salvador. Guatemala and El Salvador agree to replicate Trump trade sanctions on third countries. beta.elfaro.net/en/elfaro-au...

🎙️This week: Trump sends mixed signals to Nicaragua on trade and anti-narcotics. Costa Rican President-elect Laura Fernández floats a state of exception modeled after El Salvador. Guatemala and El Salvador agree to replicate Trump trade sanctions on third countries. beta.elfaro.net/en/elfaro-au...

Podcast: Nicaragua Gets Mixed Signals from Trump

Trump sends mixed signals to Nicaragua on trade, sanctions, and anti-narcotics. Costa Rican President-elect Laura Fernández floats a state of exception modeled after El Salvador. Guatemala and El Salv...

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🎙️ This week: In exchange for exemption from Trump tariffs, Bukele promises mining and energy access. Tito Asfura takes office in Honduras amid proposals of Bible readings in schools. Nicaragua and Spain expel ambassadors in Managua’s feud with international bodies. beta.elfaro.net/en/elfaro-au...

Podcast: Bukele Celebrates a Hardly-Reciprocal Trade Deal with Trump

In exchange for exemption from Trump tariffs, Bukele promises mining and energy access. Tito Asfura takes office in Honduras amid proposals of Bible readings in schools. Nicaragua and Spain expel amba...

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For about a year, I've been digging into the growing number of right-wing funded civic centers teaching "informed patriotism" and "Western civilization" at public universities. Today, @prismreports.org published my investigation. Big thanks to my editor @tinavasquez.bsky.social & the Prism team.

Prism@prismreports.org · 6mo ago

What's behind the right-wing plot to set up taxpayer-funded ‘intellectual freedom centers’ at public universities? UNC-Chapel Hill’s School of Civic Life & Leadership & the University of Florida’s Hamilton School are part of the effort to push conservative ideology, @shayssen.bsky.social reports.