New episode today of #CentralAmericaInMinutes👇
🎙️ Honduran campesinos call on Castro to end killings in Bajo Aguán, Nicaraguan para-security forces are sworn-in despite Ortega dragging his feet on the new constitution, and the Inter-American Development Bank cuts a check to El Salvador on the heels of Bukele’s IMF deal. elfaro.net/en/202502/ef...
Honduran Campesinos Under Siege in Bajo Aguán
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February 14, 2025 at 3:39 PM
New episode today of #CentralAmericaInMinutes👇
Many watching the news from El Salvador have asked El Faro of late: what’s the deal with the megaprison CECOT? What conditions do Venezuelans deported by Trump to Bukele’s prisons face?
We answered in a special edition of our @elfaroenglish.bsky.social podcast #CentralAmericaInMinutes👇
We answered in a special edition of our @elfaroenglish.bsky.social podcast #CentralAmericaInMinutes👇
Salvadoran prisons are black boxes where reports of systematic torture have emerged, disease proliferates, and 375 people have died in three years. They are a focal point of corruption and were the stage of Bukele’s 2019-2022 pact with gangs. #CentralAmericaInMinutes elfaro.net/en/202505/ef...
Podcast: For a Portrait of Bukele, Look to His Prisons
<p>Salvadoran prisons are black boxes where reports of systematic torture have emerged, disease proliferates and medical care is denied, and at least 375 people have died in custody. They are a focal ...
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April 4, 2025 at 4:26 PM
Many watching the news from El Salvador have asked El Faro of late: what’s the deal with the megaprison CECOT? What conditions do Venezuelans deported by Trump to Bukele’s prisons face?
We answered in a special edition of our @elfaroenglish.bsky.social podcast #CentralAmericaInMinutes👇
We answered in a special edition of our @elfaroenglish.bsky.social podcast #CentralAmericaInMinutes👇
Today we mark 30 episodes of #CentralAmericaInMinutes with audio evidence of corruption first published by @lanacioncr.bsky.social that has led to an unprecedented probe against a sitting president in Costa Rica 👇
🎙️ In Costa Rica, evidence of corruption against President Rodrigo Chaves leads the Supreme Court to discuss the possible removal of his immunity. Honduran President Xiomara Castro will be interim defense minister after ruling-party candidate Rixi Moncada resigns. beta.elfaro.net/en/elfaro-au...
May 30, 2025 at 6:49 PM
Today we mark 30 episodes of #CentralAmericaInMinutes with audio evidence of corruption first published by @lanacioncr.bsky.social that has led to an unprecedented probe against a sitting president in Costa Rica 👇
This week marks fifty episodes of #CentralAmericaInMinutes. We launched the first episode exactly a year ago this past Saturday! Stream on Apple, Spotify, iHeart, Amazon, and YouTube. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/c...
October 29, 2025 at 2:30 PM
This week marks fifty episodes of #CentralAmericaInMinutes. We launched the first episode exactly a year ago this past Saturday! Stream on Apple, Spotify, iHeart, Amazon, and YouTube. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/c...
In the first year of #CentralAmericaInMinutes, we reported on every country in our region —with the exception of Belize, but we’ll get there— as well as Washington policy under Trump 2.0. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/c...
November 9, 2025 at 12:30 AM
In the first year of #CentralAmericaInMinutes, we reported on every country in our region —with the exception of Belize, but we’ll get there— as well as Washington policy under Trump 2.0. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/c...
Salvadoran prisons are black boxes where reports of systematic torture have emerged, disease proliferates, and 375 people have died in three years. They are a focal point of corruption and were the stage of Bukele’s 2019-2022 pact with gangs. #CentralAmericaInMinutes elfaro.net/en/202505/ef...
Podcast: For a Portrait of Bukele, Look to His Prisons
<p>Salvadoran prisons are black boxes where reports of systematic torture have emerged, disease proliferates and medical care is denied, and at least 375 people have died in custody. They are a focal ...
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April 4, 2025 at 4:22 PM
Salvadoran prisons are black boxes where reports of systematic torture have emerged, disease proliferates, and 375 people have died in three years. They are a focal point of corruption and were the stage of Bukele’s 2019-2022 pact with gangs. #CentralAmericaInMinutes elfaro.net/en/202505/ef...
This week has been brutal for Guatemalan journalism: attacks up, down, and sideways from prosecutors and judges more interested in going after reporters than rampant corruption. In today's episode of #CentralAmericaInMinutes, we highlighted three cases of criminalization unfolding all at once 👇
#CentralAmericaInMinutes, Ep. 8: Nicaragua tightens border controls and pulls passports. U.S. congressmen criticize arbitrary arrests in El Salvador. Guatemala reactivates fabricated cases, issue arrest warrants, and wield anti-femicide law against journalists. open.spotify.com/episode/1pkd...
A Guatemalan Witchhunt Against Journalists
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December 13, 2024 at 6:34 PM
This week has been brutal for Guatemalan journalism: attacks up, down, and sideways from prosecutors and judges more interested in going after reporters than rampant corruption. In today's episode of #CentralAmericaInMinutes, we highlighted three cases of criminalization unfolding all at once 👇
At El Faro English, we’re deepening our audio reporting for our primarily US-based listenership. Did you know our podcast #CentralAmericaInMinutes turned one year old? 📻 podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/c...
November 15, 2025 at 6:17 PM
At El Faro English, we’re deepening our audio reporting for our primarily US-based listenership. Did you know our podcast #CentralAmericaInMinutes turned one year old? 📻 podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/c...
🎙️ #CentralAmericaInMinutes: A new Salvadoran cybersecurity agency will censor internet data; Nayib Bukele says he will undo a 2017 mining ban while Guatemala weighs a moratorium; the IMF nears a deal with El Salvador and paints a rosy economic outlook for Nicaragua. open.spotify.com/episode/5hGz...
November 29, 2024 at 3:57 PM
🎙️ #CentralAmericaInMinutes: A new Salvadoran cybersecurity agency will censor internet data; Nayib Bukele says he will undo a 2017 mining ban while Guatemala weighs a moratorium; the IMF nears a deal with El Salvador and paints a rosy economic outlook for Nicaragua. open.spotify.com/episode/5hGz...
Did you know our podcast #CentralAmericaInMinutes just turned one year old? Celebrate with us by subscribing on Apple, Spotify, iHeart, Amazon, and YouTube. 📻 podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/c...
November 1, 2025 at 11:30 PM
Did you know our podcast #CentralAmericaInMinutes just turned one year old? Celebrate with us by subscribing on Apple, Spotify, iHeart, Amazon, and YouTube. 📻 podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/c...
Panama grants safe passage to fugitive former president Ricardo Martinelli to leave for Nicaragua, where he claimed asylum to avoid prison. A US ambassador tells the Senate that he “doesn’t doubt” the possible use of Pegasus spyware in El Salvador. #CentralAmericaInMinutes elfaro.net/en/202503/ef...
Podcast: Panama Grants Fugitive President Safe Passage to Nicaragua
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March 28, 2025 at 3:47 PM
Panama grants safe passage to fugitive former president Ricardo Martinelli to leave for Nicaragua, where he claimed asylum to avoid prison. A US ambassador tells the Senate that he “doesn’t doubt” the possible use of Pegasus spyware in El Salvador. #CentralAmericaInMinutes elfaro.net/en/202503/ef...
At El Faro English, we’re deepening our audio reporting for our primarily US-based listenership. Did you know our podcast #CentralAmericaInMinutes just turned one year old? 📻 podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/c...
November 11, 2025 at 8:15 PM
At El Faro English, we’re deepening our audio reporting for our primarily US-based listenership. Did you know our podcast #CentralAmericaInMinutes just turned one year old? 📻 podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/c...
Guatemalan publisher Jose Rubén Zamora looks set to face years of legal challenges. Press advocates warn that any journalist protection mechanism can only have a limited effect without an end to state persecution of journalists in Guatemala. #CentralAmericaInMinutes elfaro.net/en/202515/ef...
Podcast: Over 1,000 Days without Freedom for Guatemala’s Top Journalist
<p>Even if Jose Rubén Zamora, Guatemala’s former top publisher, successfully defends himself at retrial, he looks set to face years of legal challenges. Press advocates warn that any journalist protec...
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May 5, 2025 at 4:33 PM
Guatemalan publisher Jose Rubén Zamora looks set to face years of legal challenges. Press advocates warn that any journalist protection mechanism can only have a limited effect without an end to state persecution of journalists in Guatemala. #CentralAmericaInMinutes elfaro.net/en/202515/ef...
#CentralAmericaInMinutes, Ep. 8: Nicaragua tightens border controls and pulls passports. U.S. congressmen criticize arbitrary arrests in El Salvador. Guatemala reactivates fabricated cases, issue arrest warrants, and wield anti-femicide law against journalists. open.spotify.com/episode/1pkd...
A Guatemalan Witchhunt Against Journalists
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December 13, 2024 at 3:45 PM
#CentralAmericaInMinutes, Ep. 8: Nicaragua tightens border controls and pulls passports. U.S. congressmen criticize arbitrary arrests in El Salvador. Guatemala reactivates fabricated cases, issue arrest warrants, and wield anti-femicide law against journalists. open.spotify.com/episode/1pkd...
🎙️ Honduras claims it is close to a free-trade deal with China. The traffic of Indigenous lands thrives in Nicaraguan territories also affected by mining-related violence. The forced pregnancy of thousands of Guatemalan girls goes almost unpunished. #CentralAmericaInMinutes elfaro.net/en/202503/ef...
Podcast: Just How Close Is Honduras to a China Trade Deal?
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March 7, 2025 at 8:46 PM
🎙️ Honduras claims it is close to a free-trade deal with China. The traffic of Indigenous lands thrives in Nicaraguan territories also affected by mining-related violence. The forced pregnancy of thousands of Guatemalan girls goes almost unpunished. #CentralAmericaInMinutes elfaro.net/en/202503/ef...
At El Faro English, we’re deepening our audio reporting for our primarily US-based listenership. Did you know our podcast #CentralAmericaInMinutes just turned one year old? podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/c...
October 30, 2025 at 3:02 PM
At El Faro English, we’re deepening our audio reporting for our primarily US-based listenership. Did you know our podcast #CentralAmericaInMinutes just turned one year old? podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/c...
🎙️Salvadoran political prisoner Ruth López’s family calls for her release. Audio published by Hondurasgate skips journalistic due diligence. Guatemala ends the tenure of an internationally sanctioned top prosecutor. #CentralAmericaInMinutes beta.elfaro.net/en/elfaro-au...
May 23, 2026 at 8:47 PM
🎙️Salvadoran political prisoner Ruth López’s family calls for her release. Audio published by Hondurasgate skips journalistic due diligence. Guatemala ends the tenure of an internationally sanctioned top prosecutor. #CentralAmericaInMinutes beta.elfaro.net/en/elfaro-au...
🎙️It may have come as a surprise in the U.S. when Trump and Bukele shrugged off a court order to bring back wrongfully deported immigrant Kilmar Ábrego. But in El Salvador, presidential non-compliance has been business as usual since 2020. #CentralAmericaInMinutes elfaro.net/en/202505/ef...
Podcast: In Bukele’s El Salvador, Defying Court Orders Is an Old Tune
<p>It may have come as a surprise in the U.S. when Trump and Bukele shrugged off a court order to bring back wrongfully deported immigrant Kilmar Ábrego. But in El Salvador, presidential non-complianc...
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April 18, 2025 at 4:04 PM
🎙️It may have come as a surprise in the U.S. when Trump and Bukele shrugged off a court order to bring back wrongfully deported immigrant Kilmar Ábrego. But in El Salvador, presidential non-compliance has been business as usual since 2020. #CentralAmericaInMinutes elfaro.net/en/202505/ef...
At El Faro English, we’re deepening our audio reporting for our primarily US-based listenership. Did you know our podcast #CentralAmericaInMinutes just turned one year old? 🎂 podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/c...
November 2, 2025 at 8:00 PM
At El Faro English, we’re deepening our audio reporting for our primarily US-based listenership. Did you know our podcast #CentralAmericaInMinutes just turned one year old? 🎂 podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/c...
At El Faro English, we’re deepening our audio reporting for our primarily US-based listenership. Did you know our podcast #CentralAmericaInMinutes turned one year old? 📻 podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/c...
November 13, 2025 at 11:15 PM
At El Faro English, we’re deepening our audio reporting for our primarily US-based listenership. Did you know our podcast #CentralAmericaInMinutes turned one year old? 📻 podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/c...
In today’s episode of #CentralAmericaInMinutes: Claims of a “judicial coup” against Trump are vintage sleight of hand from Bukele, who illegally removed El Salvador’s Constitutional Chamber magistrates and attorney general almost four years ago.👇
🎙️ Bukele and Musk cite the illegal 2021 removal of the Salvadoran Constitutional Court as a model for the U.S. In Honduras, the National Party courts Trump operative Roger Stone, who claims the 2024 drug conviction of Juan Orlando Hernández is part of a “globalist” plot. elfaro.net/en/202503/ef...
Podcast: Bukele and Musk Bond over Attacks on U.S. Judiciary
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March 21, 2025 at 5:39 PM
In today’s episode of #CentralAmericaInMinutes: Claims of a “judicial coup” against Trump are vintage sleight of hand from Bukele, who illegally removed El Salvador’s Constitutional Chamber magistrates and attorney general almost four years ago.👇
El Faro English translates Central America. Listen to #CentralAmericaInMinutes every Friday on Spotify, Apple, Amazon, YouTube, and iHeartRadio podcast platforms. open.spotify.com/show/3TaESG2...
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December 2, 2024 at 4:51 PM
El Faro English translates Central America. Listen to #CentralAmericaInMinutes every Friday on Spotify, Apple, Amazon, YouTube, and iHeartRadio podcast platforms. open.spotify.com/show/3TaESG2...
This week marks fifty episodes of #CentralAmericaInMinutes. We launched the first episode exactly a year ago this past Saturday! Stream on Apple, Spotify, iHeart, Amazon, and YouTube. 📻 podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/c...
November 3, 2025 at 6:30 PM
This week marks fifty episodes of #CentralAmericaInMinutes. We launched the first episode exactly a year ago this past Saturday! Stream on Apple, Spotify, iHeart, Amazon, and YouTube. 📻 podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/c...
📻 Honduras awaits primary election results as monitors and the press report procedural failings as the Army and Supreme Electoral Council shift blame. In Guatemala, Jose Rubén Zamora re-enters prison after a court vacates months of proceedings. #CentralAmericaInMinutes elfaro.net/en/202503/ef...
Podcast: Honduras Plays the Blame Game in Turbulent Primaries
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March 14, 2025 at 2:25 PM
📻 Honduras awaits primary election results as monitors and the press report procedural failings as the Army and Supreme Electoral Council shift blame. In Guatemala, Jose Rubén Zamora re-enters prison after a court vacates months of proceedings. #CentralAmericaInMinutes elfaro.net/en/202503/ef...
#CentralAmericaInMinutes, ep. 7 🎙️ Editors of Costa Rica’s top daily resign under editorial pressure, the Guatemalan attorney general dismantles the special prosecutors’ unit for war crimes, and the state of exception swells a tuberculosis crisis in Salvadoran prisons. elfaro.net/en/202412/ef...
December 6, 2024 at 5:25 PM
#CentralAmericaInMinutes, ep. 7 🎙️ Editors of Costa Rica’s top daily resign under editorial pressure, the Guatemalan attorney general dismantles the special prosecutors’ unit for war crimes, and the state of exception swells a tuberculosis crisis in Salvadoran prisons. elfaro.net/en/202412/ef...