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Roman Gressier
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I’m a journalist in Guatemala City, the editor of El Faro English @elfaroenglish.bsky.social, and the host of our Friday podcast, #CentralAmericaInMinutes.

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📸 In this week's @elfaroenglish.bsky.social newsletter, see our four-part special: “Disappeared in El Salvador”, a photojournalism curation of 50 photos on the evolution of violence from the civil war to gang control to the state of exception. mailchi.mp/elfaro.net/p...
February 20, 2025 at 3:13 PM
Biden sanctions have done little to curb the surge of toxic mining and settler violence in #Nicaragua under the purportedly socialist Ortega dictatorship — to the resounding benefit of US and Canadian corporations, writes @maxgranger.info in @elfaroenglish.bsky.social. 👉 elfaro.net/en/202411/op...
November 27, 2024 at 11:43 PM
November 25, 2024 at 12:10 PM
Today’s #CentralAmericaInMinutes: Reports of crimes by the Honduran police abound under the state of exception, the Nicaraguan regime moves to make Ortega and Murillo “co-presidents”, and DHS acquires spyware in the US like those deployed in El Salvador and Panama. 🎙️ open.spotify.com/episode/2Qzz...
November 22, 2024 at 4:33 PM
After meeting with White House, Colombian ambassador tells press that US funds were used to purchase Pegasus spyware in Colombia in cash, to "avoid traceability," and that US officials "supervis[ed]" use but did not inform then-president Iván Duque. estadosunidos.embajada.gov.co/newsroom/new...
November 21, 2024 at 3:49 PM
🧵 #CentralAmericaInMinutes: Rodrigo Chaves awards Nayib Bukele Costa Rica’s highest diplomatic honors, Donald Trump taps Marco Rubio at State and Matt Gaetz at the DOJ, and Daniel Ortega expels the head of the Episcopal Conference of Nicaragua. 🎙️ open.spotify.com/episode/0lXN...
November 18, 2024 at 8:33 PM
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November 17, 2024 at 6:41 PM
We curated 47 stunning photos by Víctor Peña, Carlos Barrera, Fred Ramos, and Diego Rosales. 👀

We also added a photojournalism section to our homepage, elfaro.net/en. Scroll to "Snapshots" for more photography from El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras and Nicaragua.
November 17, 2024 at 6:41 PM
Ixil Dignity

Four decades ago, the Maya Ixil people were crushed by the Guatemalan Army as it perpetrated massacres across Ixil territory in Quiché, some 300km from Guatemala City. Now retired General Benedicto Lucas is standing trial for some of those crimes. elfaro.net/en/202410/ef...
November 17, 2024 at 6:41 PM
The Forgotten Midwives of Chiquimula

Brenda buried her daughter in 2020. She has not visited her grave. “I gave everything for her. Now I must take care of my other three children.” In rural Guatemala, Brenda represents many women abandoned by their partners and the state elfaro.net/en/202410/ef...
November 17, 2024 at 6:41 PM
The “Sons of Chaos” Seek to Start Anew at El Brit

El Brit, a center for people recovering from addictions in downtown San Salvador, is supported by a small shop and donations. It was born four years ago and, amid the precarity, serves nearly one hundred people at a time. elfaro.net/en/202410/ef...
November 17, 2024 at 6:41 PM
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November 16, 2024 at 4:31 PM
🎙️ Central America in Minutes: Rodrigo Chaves awards Nayib Bukele Costa Rica’s highest diplomatic honors, Donald Trump taps Marco Rubio at State and Matt Gaetz at the DOJ, and Daniel Ortega expels the head of the Episcopal Conference of Nicaragua. open.spotify.com/episode/0lXN...
November 15, 2024 at 2:41 PM
🎙️ Coming next week: Central America in Minutes, a podcast from El Faro English where we cover our breaking investigations, the splashiest headlines and the stories swept underneath the rug.

🎧 Streaming every Friday on Spotify, Apple, Amazon, YouTube and iHeartRadio. open.spotify.com/episode/1026...
October 18, 2024 at 11:25 PM
🇸🇻 Rising food costs, crop failures, and a lack of agricultural subsidies have increased the numbers of Salvadorans forced to skip meals. Now the state of exception has left thousands of families with less income.

Read on in this El Faro English special: especiales.elfaro.net/en/hunger/
January 23, 2024 at 9:24 PM
El Faro English translates Central America. Subscribe here: elfaro.net/suscribe/en/
January 23, 2024 at 9:21 PM
👀 Corrupt Guatemalan judge asks Musk’s X for data on accounts critical of government, including three news outlets and an opposition legislator who died of cancer in September.

Requested data includes IP, MAC, routing info; name, address, phone of account creator lahora.gt/nacionales/l...
November 22, 2023 at 12:36 AM
“Entre el periodismo de los que no se comprometen con nada y el periodismo fogoso que se vuelve propaganda, hay un camino medio: el del periodista que muestra hechos y los hace entender”.

—Javier Darío Restrepo

Foto: Fundación Gabo
November 21, 2023 at 8:22 PM