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When the Ortega-Murillo regime expelled dozens of Nicaraguan political prisoners to Guatemala in September 2024, many were resettled in the U.S. or Spain. One group, denied U.S. resettlement, lives in miserable conditions in Guatemala. #efPhoto by
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September 29, 2026 at 5:02 PM
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When the Ortega-Murillo regime expelled dozens of Nicaraguan political prisoners to Guatemala in September 2024, many were resettled in the U.S. or Spain. One group, denied U.S. resettlement, lives in miserable conditions in Guatemala. #efPhoto
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September 16, 2026 at 4:30 PM
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When the Nicaraguan regime expelled dozens of political prisoners to Guatemala in September 2024, many were resettled in the U.S. or Spain. One group, denied U.S. resettlement, lives in miserable conditions in Guatemala. #efPhoto by
Carlos Barrera.
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Exiled in Guatemala, Stateless Nicaraguans Live in Misery
When the Ortega-Murillo regime expelled dozens of Nicaraguan political prisoners to Guatemala in September 2024, many were resettled in the U.S. or Spain. One group, denied U.S. resettlement, lives…
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September 7, 2026 at 5:33 PM
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When the Nicaraguan regime expelled dozens of political prisoners to Guatemala in September 2024, many were resettled in the U.S. or Spain. One group, denied U.S. resettlement, lives in miserable conditions in Guatemala. #efPhoto beta.elfaro.net/en/ef-photo-...
Exiled in Guatemala, Stateless Nicaraguans Live in Misery
When the Ortega-Murillo regime expelled dozens of Nicaraguan political prisoners to Guatemala in September 2024, many were resettled in the U.S. or Spain. One group, denied U.S. resettlement, lives in...
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September 2, 2026 at 6:06 PM
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In recent weeks, Honduras has been hit by a severe heat wave reaching 40 degrees Celsius (104 Fahrenheit). Some climatologists forecast a possible “Super El Niño” global temperature spike in 2026, possibly unprecedented in a century and a half. #efPhoto 📷
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El Niño Turns Up the Heat in Honduras
In recent weeks, Honduras has been hit by a severe heat wave reaching 40 degrees Celsius (104 Fahrenheit). Some climatologists forecast a possible “Super El Niño” global temperature spike in 2026,…
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June 1, 2026 at 3:36 PM
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In recent weeks, Honduras has been hit by a severe heat wave reaching 40 degrees Celsius (104 Fahrenheit). Some climatologists forecast a possible “Super El Niño” global temperature spike in 2026, possibly unprecedented in a century and a half. #efPhoto 📷️
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El Niño Turns Up the Heat in Honduras
In recent weeks, Honduras has been hit by a severe heat wave reaching 40 degrees Celsius (104 Fahrenheit). Some climatologists forecast a possible “Super El Niño” global temperature spike in 2026,…
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May 28, 2026 at 3:25 PM
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#EfPhoto 📷️ | Four years ago, Uziel de Jesús Pineda walked out of jail a hero. Two dozen fishermen had been arrested from an island free of gangs. He died on Tuesday of kidney failure, forced to check in at a distant courthouse to avoid prison.

📷️: Carlos Barrera

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Uziel Died Free from Prison, but Still Bound by the State of Exception
Four years ago, Uziel de Jesús Pineda walked out of jail a hero. Two dozen fishermen had been arrested from his community, an island free of gangs. He died this Tuesday of kidney failure, forced to…
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April 13, 2026 at 6:01 PM
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#EfPhoto 📷 | In Quetzaltenango, migration is a historic tradition. Families where women take care of everything are the norm, writes @barreraescarlos. Some returned to Guatemala years ago; others recently, under the terror imposed by ICE in US cities.
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In Guatemala’s Western Highlands, There’s Life After Deportation
In Quetzaltenango, migration is a historic tradition, as is returning. Some returned to Guatemala years ago; others recently, under the terror imposed by ICE in U.S. cities. Families where women take…
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April 1, 2026 at 4:03 PM
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#EfPhoto 📷 | In Quetzaltenango, migration is a historic tradition. Families where women take care of everything are the norm, writes @barreraescarlos. Some returned to Guatemala years ago; others recently, under the terror imposed by ICE in US cities.
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In Guatemala’s Western Highlands, There’s Life After Deportation
In Quetzaltenango, migration is a historic tradition, as is returning. Some returned to Guatemala years ago; others recently, under the terror imposed by ICE in U.S. cities. Families where women take…
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March 29, 2026 at 9:00 PM
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#EfPhoto 📷 | In Quetzaltenango, migration is a historic tradition. Families where women take care of everything are the norm, writes @barreraescarlos. Some returned to Guatemala years ago; others recently, under the terror imposed by ICE in US cities.
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In Guatemala’s Western Highlands, There’s Life After Deportation
In Quetzaltenango, migration is a historic tradition, as is returning. Some returned to Guatemala years ago; others recently, under the terror imposed by ICE in U.S. cities. Families where women take…
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March 27, 2026 at 4:13 PM
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#EfPhoto 📷️ | In Quetzaltenango, migration is a historic tradition. Families where women take care of everything are the norm, writes @barreraescarlos. Some returned to Guatemala years ago; others recently, under the terror imposed by ICE in US cities.
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In Guatemala’s Western Highlands, There’s Life After Deportation
In Quetzaltenango, migration is a historic tradition, as is returning. Some returned to Guatemala years ago; others recently, under the terror imposed by ICE in U.S. cities. Families where women take…
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March 25, 2026 at 5:30 PM
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📸 In Quetzaltenango, migration is a historic tradition. Families where women take care of everything are the norm. Some returned to Guatemala years ago; others recently, under the terror imposed by ICE in US cities. #efPhoto beta.elfaro.net/en/ef-photo-...
In 2006, Marta Hernández tried to go to the United States to live with her husband, but was apprehended on U.S. soil. She was sent to a detention center in Albuquerque, New Mexico, and then deported. At the association, she volunteers by leading a workshop on making sausages and runs her own business. Marta says she is preparing for the worst: “I think at some point they’re going to deport my husband; given how [Trump] is targeting migrants there, nothing good can come of it, and here, thanks to the association, at least I have a job to support my children,” she said. Photo: Carlos Barrera/El Faro In Garibaldi, nestled in the hills surrounding downtown Quetzaltenango, Guatemala’s second-largest city, the architecture of small family homes has gradually changed over decades of migration. Now, houses are regularly built up to three stories high. Although the reality is not the same for all migrants, Garibaldi Association of Migrants and Deportees (AMIDEGA) director Maribel Hernández says these buildings become a dream, aspirational for the people in the area. “Here, people take out loans of thousands of quetzales, not to build [right off the bat in Guatemala], but to pay a coyote, make the trip to the United States, provide for their family, and then build a house here,” she says. “One of the greatest frustrations for people here is not achieving what their neighbor achieved.” Photo: Carlos Barrera/El Faro Ángela Soloj, 57, is one of the association’s longest-standing members and a testament to Quetzaltenango’s migratory vocation. When she was 17, she emigrated to the United States and settled in Los Angeles, but returned to Guatemala a few months later because the language —even in that city, home to thousands of Hispanics— was a barrier she could not overcome. Since her return, she has never had a stable job; her income began to stabilize just under ten years ago, when she learned about the AMIDEGA association. Ángela embroiders and sells her textiles when the association organizes fairs for returnees and deportees to sell their products. “Beyond the financial aspect, the association is an opportunity for us to come together as people who have experienced the frustration of the American dream,” she explained. Photo: Carlos Barrera/El Faro Every month, the association organizes entrepreneurship fairs where people —mostly women— sell their wares. For Maribel, the association’s director, this is a way to prevent emigration or mitigate its economic effects. “When people talk about emigration, little is said about the consequences: separated families, debt, trauma,” said Maribel. “All families affected by any of these consequences need help that the government should guarantee, but does not.” Photo: Carlos Barrera/El Faro
March 24, 2026 at 10:34 PM
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Although El Faro’s photographers spent half of 2025 in exile, they captured survivors of the regime’s prisons, mining pollution, precarious school conditions, and the lonely protest of a mother searching for her son in Nayib Bukele’s prisons. #efPhoto beta.elfaro.net/en/central-a...
2025 in Ten Pictures
El Faro’s photographers spent half of 2025 in exile, but captured some of the most sensitive issues in El Salvador. They also looked beyond the consolidating dictatorship to deportations in the new…
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January 11, 2026 at 4:15 PM
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Although El Faro’s photographers spent half of 2025 in exile, they captured survivors of the regime’s prisons, mining pollution, precarious school conditions, and the lonely protest of a mother searching for her son in Nayib Bukele’s prisons. #efPhoto beta.elfaro.net/en/central-a...
2025 in Ten Pictures
El Faro’s photographers spent half of 2025 in exile, but captured some of the most sensitive issues in El Salvador. They also looked beyond the consolidating dictatorship to deportations in the new…
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January 9, 2026 at 9:00 PM
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Although El Faro’s photographers spent half of 2025 in exile, they captured survivors of the regime’s prisons, mining pollution, precarious school conditions, and the lonely protest of a mother searching for her son in Nayib Bukele’s prisons. #efPhoto beta.elfaro.net/en/central-a...
2025 in Ten Pictures
El Faro’s photographers spent half of 2025 in exile, but captured some of the most sensitive issues in El Salvador. They also looked beyond the consolidating dictatorship to deportations in the new…
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January 6, 2026 at 4:30 PM
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Although El Faro’s photographers spent half of 2025 in exile, they captured survivors of the regime’s prisons, mining pollution, precarious school conditions, and the lonely protest of a mother searching for her son in Nayib Bukele’s prisons. #efPhoto beta.elfaro.net/en/central-a...
2025 in Ten Pictures
El Faro’s photographers spent half of 2025 in exile, but captured some of the most sensitive issues in El Salvador. They also looked beyond the consolidating dictatorship to deportations in the new…
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December 31, 2025 at 5:01 PM
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Although El Faro’s photographers spent half of 2025 in exile, they captured survivors of the regime’s prisons, mining pollution, precarious school conditions, and the lonely protest of a mother searching for her son in Nayib Bukele’s prisons. #efPhoto beta.elfaro.net/en/central-a...
December 20, 2025 at 12:15 AM
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Although El Faro’s photographers spent half of 2025 in exile, they captured survivors of the regime’s prisons, mining pollution, precarious school conditions, and the lonely protest of a mother searching for her son in Nayib Bukele’s prisons. #efPhoto
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2025 in Ten Pictures
El Faro’s photographers spent half of 2025 in exile, but captured some of the most sensitive issues in El Salvador. They also looked beyond the consolidating dictatorship to deportations in the new…
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December 18, 2025 at 7:27 PM
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Although El Faro’s photographers spent half of 2025 in exile, they captured survivors of the regime’s prisons, mining pollution, precarious school conditions, and the lonely protest of a mother searching for her son in Nayib Bukele’s prisons. #efPhoto beta.elfaro.net/en/central-a...
2025 in Ten Pictures
El Faro’s photographers spent half of 2025 in exile, but captured some of the most sensitive issues in El Salvador. They also looked beyond the consolidating dictatorship to deportations in the new Tr...
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December 15, 2025 at 9:21 PM
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It took eight years for a Guatemalan to charge officials responsible for the 2017 Hogar Seguro fire, where 41 girls died locked in a dorm. The name of the facility —‘Safe Home’— rings like a cruel joke. #efPhoto
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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…
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December 14, 2025 at 8:45 PM
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Guatemalan migrants deported from Texas describe inhumane treatment by ICE, including being spoken to only in English and thrown to the ground for handcuffing, reports Carlos Barrera. #efPhoto
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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…
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December 12, 2025 at 11:15 PM
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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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December 11, 2025 at 2:02 PM
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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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December 10, 2025 at 11:00 PM
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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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December 8, 2025 at 6:15 PM
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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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December 7, 2025 at 2:45 PM