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
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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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
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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Hundreds gathered at Central American University over a four-day wake to commemorate the life of Father Chema Tojeira. He was buried alongside Ignacio Ellacuría and their other Jesuit companions assassinated by the Salvadoran Army in 1989. #efPhoto buff.ly/vZAGfKR
The Final Pilgrimage of Chema Tojeira
Hundreds gathered at Central American University over a four-day wake to commemorate the life of Father Chema Tojeira, a prominent figure in El Salvador for his decadeslong fight against impunity…
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September 24, 2025 at 10:30 PM
Hundreds gathered at Central American University over a four-day wake to commemorate the life of Father Chema Tojeira. He was buried alongside Ignacio Ellacuría and their other Jesuit companions assassinated by the Salvadoran Army in 1989. #efPhoto buff.ly/vZAGfKR
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. #efPhoto 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 22, 2025 at 11:30 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. #efPhoto beta.elfaro.net/en/letter-fr...
Hundreds gathered at Central American University over a four-day wake to commemorate the life of Father Chema Tojeira. He was buried alongside Ignacio Ellacuría and their other Jesuit companions assassinated by the Salvadoran Army in 1989. #efPhoto beta.elfaro.net/en/ef-photo-...
The Final Pilgrimage of Chema Tojeira
Hundreds gathered at Central American University over a four-day wake to commemorate the life of Father Chema Tojeira, a prominent figure in El Salvador for his decadeslong fight against impunity sinc...
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September 23, 2025 at 11:37 PM
Hundreds gathered at Central American University over a four-day wake to commemorate the life of Father Chema Tojeira. He was buried alongside Ignacio Ellacuría and their other Jesuit companions assassinated by the Salvadoran Army in 1989. #efPhoto beta.elfaro.net/en/ef-photo-...
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 6, 2025 at 6:08 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...
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...
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
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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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
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...
#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
#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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#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
#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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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
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 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...
#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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📷️: 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
#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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📷️: Carlos Barrera
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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 1, 2025 at 8:00 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...
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 23, 2025 at 11:15 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...
#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.
beta.elfaro.net/en/ef-photo-...
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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
#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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This photo essay is part three of “Disappeared in El Salvador”, a special photography curation on the evolution of violence from the civil war to gang control to the state of exception. #efPhoto elfaro.net/en/202502/ef...
Abandoned by the State with No Answers in Sight
<p>Eneida Abarca has traveled hundreds of kilometers, combed ravines, and, when allowed, entered government offices. She has exhausted all legal avenues in her search for her son Carlos. Official soci...
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February 19, 2025 at 5:13 PM
This photo essay is part three of “Disappeared in El Salvador”, a special photography curation on the evolution of violence from the civil war to gang control to the state of exception. #efPhoto elfaro.net/en/202502/ef...
Hundreds gathered at Central American University over a four-day wake to commemorate the life of Father Chema Tojeira. He was buried alongside Ignacio Ellacuría and their other Jesuit companions assassinated by the Salvadoran Army in 1989. #efPhoto beta.elfaro.net/en/ef-photo-...
The Final Pilgrimage of Chema Tojeira
Hundreds gathered at Central American University over a four-day wake to commemorate the life of Father Chema Tojeira, a prominent figure in El Salvador for his decadeslong fight against impunity…
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October 8, 2025 at 5:30 PM
Hundreds gathered at Central American University over a four-day wake to commemorate the life of Father Chema Tojeira. He was buried alongside Ignacio Ellacuría and their other Jesuit companions assassinated by the Salvadoran Army in 1989. #efPhoto beta.elfaro.net/en/ef-photo-...
As parish priest in Santa Tecla, El Salvador, Father Tojeira promoted and disseminated the legacy and social-justice philosophy of his six Jesuit companions murdered at the UCA in 1989, as well as that of Monsignor Óscar Romero. #efPhoto beta.elfaro.net/en/ef-photo-...
The Final Pilgrimage of Chema Tojeira
Hundreds gathered at Central American University over a four-day wake to commemorate the life of Father Chema Tojeira, a prominent figure in El Salvador for his decadeslong fight against impunity…
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October 5, 2025 at 1:30 PM
As parish priest in Santa Tecla, El Salvador, Father Tojeira promoted and disseminated the legacy and social-justice philosophy of his six Jesuit companions murdered at the UCA in 1989, as well as that of Monsignor Óscar Romero. #efPhoto beta.elfaro.net/en/ef-photo-...
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
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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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
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...
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...
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 21, 2025 at 12:15 AM
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 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 25, 2025 at 1:45 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...
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
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...