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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 gun...
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Honduras nears the Sunday elections with last-minute institutional infighting, criminal investigations, fraud accusations and a state of exception. Amid Trump’s Venezuela gunboat diplomacy, the United States called for the OAS to meet today on the Honduran election. beta.elfaro.net/en/central-a...
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...
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…
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November 30, 2025 at 10:30 PM
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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November 30, 2025 at 8:35 PM
Want to know what's really going on in the Honduran elections, beyond all the headlines and sloganeering? On the @elfaroenglish.bsky.social homepage you'll find the simmering political crisis, Trump's announced pardon of JOH, New York v. Juan Orlando, and more. elfaro.net/en
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...
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…
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November 30, 2025 at 7:30 PM
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...
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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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…
beta.elfaro.net
November 30, 2025 at 3:00 PM
In Honduras, this weekend capped off a campaign season heavy on vitriol and criss-crossing claims of foul play, but light on concrete proposals.
beta.elfaro.net/en/central-a...
beta.elfaro.net/en/central-a...
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...
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…
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November 30, 2025 at 2:30 PM
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...
In Honduras, this weekend capped off a campaign season heavy on vitriol and criss-crossing claims of foul play, but light on concrete proposals.
beta.elfaro.net/en/central-a...
beta.elfaro.net/en/central-a...
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...
beta.elfaro.net
November 29, 2025 at 11:30 PM
In Honduras, this weekend capped off a campaign season heavy on vitriol and criss-crossing claims of foul play, but light on concrete proposals.
beta.elfaro.net/en/central-a...
beta.elfaro.net/en/central-a...
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...
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…
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November 29, 2025 at 8:30 PM
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...
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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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…
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November 29, 2025 at 5:00 PM
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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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-...
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…
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November 29, 2025 at 2:01 PM
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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November 29, 2025 at 12:30 AM
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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...
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…
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November 28, 2025 at 10:30 PM
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...
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...
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…
beta.elfaro.net
November 28, 2025 at 8:15 PM
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...
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...
Irrefutable Images
From the time Donald Trump took office in January until mid-October, when El Faro visited the Center for the Reception of Returnees in Guatemala City, the Department of Homeland Security had sent 398…
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November 28, 2025 at 6:18 PM
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...
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.
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…
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November 27, 2025 at 11:02 PM
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.
In Honduras, this weekend capped off a campaign season heavy on vitriol and criss-crossing claims of foul play, but light on concrete proposals.
beta.elfaro.net/en/central-a...
beta.elfaro.net/en/central-a...
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…
beta.elfaro.net
November 27, 2025 at 8:30 PM
In Honduras, this weekend capped off a campaign season heavy on vitriol and criss-crossing claims of foul play, but light on concrete proposals.
beta.elfaro.net/en/central-a...
beta.elfaro.net/en/central-a...
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...
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…
beta.elfaro.net
November 27, 2025 at 4:30 PM
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...
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-...
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…
beta.elfaro.net
November 27, 2025 at 2:02 PM
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-...
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...
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…
beta.elfaro.net
November 26, 2025 at 11:30 PM
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...
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November 26, 2025 at 9:45 PM
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Tarmac of Tears: Back in Guatemala, Trump’s Deportees Weep
Read Issue No. 7 of Central America Monthly:
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November 26, 2025 at 8:46 PM
Tarmac of Tears: Back in Guatemala, Trump’s Deportees Weep
Read Issue No. 7 of Central America Monthly:
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Read Issue No. 7 of Central America Monthly:
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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...
Irrefutable Images
From the time Donald Trump took office in January until mid-October, when El Faro visited the Center for the Reception of Returnees in Guatemala City, the Department of Homeland Security had sent 398…
beta.elfaro.net
November 26, 2025 at 5:45 PM
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...
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...
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…
beta.elfaro.net
November 26, 2025 at 12:15 AM
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...
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-...
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…
beta.elfaro.net
November 25, 2025 at 10:30 PM
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-...
There are bodies down there. And now that everybody knows, the question remains: What do we do? This is the story of a well — and of the country that surrounds it. #efArchive beta.elfaro.net/en/from-the-...
Our Bottomless Well
There are bodies down there. Not prosecutors, not gang members, not journalists, not policemen, not even the government doubts that in this exact spot, deep below ground level, there are bodies. And…
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November 25, 2025 at 8:15 PM
There are bodies down there. And now that everybody knows, the question remains: What do we do? This is the story of a well — and of the country that surrounds it. #efArchive beta.elfaro.net/en/from-the-...
Honduras nears the Sunday elections with last-minute institutional infighting, criminal investigations, fraud accusations and a state of exception. Amid Trump’s Venezuela gunboat diplomacy, the United States called for the OAS to meet today on the Honduran election. beta.elfaro.net/en/central-a...
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 gun...
beta.elfaro.net
November 25, 2025 at 7:10 PM
Honduras nears the Sunday elections with last-minute institutional infighting, criminal investigations, fraud accusations and a state of exception. Amid Trump’s Venezuela gunboat diplomacy, the United States called for the OAS to meet today on the Honduran election. beta.elfaro.net/en/central-a...