Client list: Hungarian domestic intelligence, ICE, the U.S. military, an array of district attorneys’ offices and police departments… and the National Civil Police of El Salvador.

NEW REPORT: “Uncovering Webloc: An Analysis of Penlink’s Ad-based Geolocation Surveillance Tech” Our research confirms that ad-based surveillance tech Webloc is used by military, intelligence, and law enforcement agencies across the globe. citizenlab.ca/research/ana...

Tomorrow, Frontline and El Faro may reveal more on the migration deal between Nayib Bukele and Donald Trump—and the shadow negotiations between Bukele and gangs. For Trump, it backfired fast—triggering backlash and eroding support. For Bukele: what did he gain—and at what cost? 🧵

‘Consuelo Porras Signed Irregular Adoptions of Children from Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras’ @elfaroenglish.bsky.social‬ @romangressier.com‬ #GSN #Guatemala#GSN#GSN #Guatemala_Solidarity_Network #Guatemala_Adoptions #Guatemala_Illegal_Adoptions #Guatemala_Corruption

🗞️Information is dissent. Truth is dissent. And the rigorous production of information is considered dangerous. Journalism is resistance. 🎥 Watch and read editor-in-chief @CarlosDada’s 2026 Reuters Memorial Lecture @risj_oxford here: beta.elfaro.net/en/ef-tv-en/...

ReVista: @harvard.edu Review of Latin American Studies, published my review of Rick Rockwell’s book on Latin American journalism. Also, I noted how journalism has changed since the emergence of digital media such @elfaroenglish.bsky.social revista.drclas.harvard.edu/a-review-of-...

🗞️Information is dissent. Truth is dissent. And the rigorous production of information is considered dangerous. Journalism is resistance. 🎥 Watch and read editor-in-chief Carlos Dada 2026 Reuters Memorial Lecture @risj_oxford here: beta.elfaro.net/en/ef-tv-en/...

‘U.N. Experts Warn of Illegal Adoptions Tied to Guatemalan Attorney General’ by Yuliana Ramazzini and Gabriel Labrador @elfaroenglish.bsky.social #podcast #Guatemala #Guatemala_impunity #Guatemala_adoptions #Guatemala_AG #Guatemala_Pacto_de_Corruptos #Guatemala_podcast

🎙️This week: The Inter-American Court condemns Honduras for trying to uproot Caribbean Garifunas. Guatemalan political elites battle over nominations to the tainted top court. Cristosal reports 245 cases of political persecution in El Salvador. beta.elfaro.net/en/elfaro-au...

The Shield of the Americas seeks to impose a militarized agenda against drug trafficking, writes @ricardovalp.bsky.social in #efOpinion. In return, Trump rewards certain leaders, from traditional conservatives to crypto-authoritarians, with a semblance of friendship. beta.elfaro.net/en/opinion-e...

Trump nominated a Florida international arbitrage attorney, hailed by Arévalo’s opponents, as ambassador to Guatemala. That same day, Arévalo deepened ties with the U.S. military, announcing a budget of $50 million for equipment purchases. 👉 This morning’s newsletter beta.elfaro.net/en/central-a...

The responsibility for violence should never fall on those who resist, but on the structure that targets dissent, writes exiled Nicaraguan feminist and human rights defender Claudia Vargas. #efOpinion beta.elfaro.net/en/opinion-e...

🎙️This week: The Inter-American Court condemns Honduras for trying to uproot Caribbean Garifunas. Guatemalan political elites battle over nominations to the tainted top court. Cristosal reports 245 cases of political persecution in El Salvador. beta.elfaro.net/en/elfaro-au...

📸 A Photographer's Overwhelming Urge A snapshot of El Salvador from afar, Bad Bunny, and photojournalism in exile, from Víctor Peña's always stellar camera beta.elfaro.net/en/ef-photo-...

📸 In the last year, at least 53 journalists fled El Salvador. Now I’m a photographer in exile, another migrant among the many migrants from my country. Among the many colleagues who’ve also become migrants. 🖊️ Víctor Peña beta.elfaro.net/en/ef-photo-...

The Long Shadow of Dos Erres: Canadian Court Sanctions Perpetrator of 1982 Dos Erres Massacre in Guatemala -- @nsarchive.bsky.social publishes key records from the trial nsarchive.gwu.edu/briefing-boo...

At @elfaroenglish.bsky.social, we've been closely following big stories reshaping Central America this year: the Trump-Bukele relationship, the Guatemalan security crisis, and the return to power of the National Party in Honduras. More on our front page 🗞️ elfaro.net/en

The Defense Department said that it blew up a boat in the Caribbean Sea on Monday, killing three people. The strike raised the death toll in the U.S. campaign against people it accuses, without providing evidence, of smuggling drugs at sea to at least 150. nyti.ms/4aN52ZY

📸 During Shakira’s nine-day tour in El Salvador, thousands of military and police guarded concerts, public employees and prisoners cleaned, and the Tourism Ministry used an A.I. Shakira to promote the Historic Center of San Salvador. #CentralAmericanLens beta.elfaro.net/en/ef-photo-...

📸 A girl peeks at soldiers in El Gallito, Guatemala City, under a state of siege. Across much of Central America, children grow up in the shadow of the military and its guns, on promises of curbing violence that bleed into abuses, writes Carlos Barrera. beta.elfaro.net/en/ef-photo-...

This morning in the @elfaroenglish.bsky.social newsletter: MAGA lobbying in Washington meets state secrecy in El Salvador. 👇

Bukele has focused lobbying on courting MAGA politicians and “positioning narratives” in US media. He’s paying for it through a public electricity company that shields financial information through a private subsidiary. @periodistagl.bsky.social in today's newsletter beta.elfaro.net/en/el-salvad...

Detention Reports has been updated to include a national map of all active ICE detention facilities that link to individual facility reports. Learn about this new feature and other new features at my latest post: austinkocher.substack.com/p/the-best-s...

“The ICE Killing the U.S. Has Already Forgotten” Starting this week, you can find Central American Lens, our photo of the week, in the @elfaroenglish.bsky.social newsletter. Subscribe: elfaro.net/suscribe/en/

Last September, Silverio Villegas was gunned down by an ICE officer near Franklin Park, Chicago. The United States has already forgotten his name. Even the New York Times, the paper of record, recently identified him only as “a Mexican immigrant.” beta.elfaro.net/en/ef-photo-...

New trade deals with Trump are taking center stage in US policy in Central America. Don’t be surprised if Honduras soon follows suit. In the case of Nicaragua, no deal of course, but the US hasn’t wanted to touch CAFTA. More on this week’s #CentralAmericaInMinutes

🎙️This week: Trump sends mixed signals to Nicaragua on trade and anti-narcotics. Costa Rican President-elect Laura Fernández floats a state of exception modeled after El Salvador. Guatemala and El Salvador agree to replicate Trump trade sanctions on third countries. beta.elfaro.net/en/elfaro-au...

🎙️ This week: In exchange for exemption from Trump tariffs, Bukele promises mining and energy access. Tito Asfura takes office in Honduras amid proposals of Bible readings in schools. Nicaragua and Spain expel ambassadors in Managua’s feud with international bodies. beta.elfaro.net/en/elfaro-au...

For about a year, I've been digging into the growing number of right-wing funded civic centers teaching "informed patriotism" and "Western civilization" at public universities. Today, @prismreports.org published my investigation. Big thanks to my editor @tinavasquez.bsky.social & the Prism team.

Just a beautiful, thoughtful, courageous human in every way. Note especially that at the close of the interview she brings the focus back to the *immigrants* who have been targeted, killed, kidnapped, abandoned, orphaned and forsaken. Gratitude and respect for Stella Carson.

Tim Walz told Minnesotans to document the atrocities. They did—and the whole world is seeing federal agents kill civilians. By Alyssa Oursler in Minneapolis. www.thenation.com/article/soci...

📝 Two big political stories from Central America this week: Tito Asfura is set to take office in Honduras on Tuesday and Costa Rica will hold its presidential and legislative elections on Sunday, February 1. We've been closely watching both in our weekly podcast: beta.elfaro.net/en/elfaro-au...

New report in @elfaroenglish.bsky.social on the state of siege in Guatemala and President Bernardo Arévalo's escalating accusations against the 18th Street gang (also known as Barrio 18) 👇

The Guatemalan government reports dozens of arrests in two days under state of siege. Arévalo avoids naming the “political structures” he accused of colluding with 18th Street, but now singles out and accuses the gang of conspiring to assassinate him in 2023. beta.elfaro.net/en/central-a...

Arévalo Begins Third Year under State of Siege amid Clashes with 18th Street. New reporting from @elfaroenglish.bsky.social beta.elfaro.net/en/central-a...

Nuevo: Guatemala reporta decenas de arrestos en dos días bajo estado de sitio. Arévalo evita nombrar a las “estructuras políticas” señaladas de coludir con el Barrio 18, pero ahora individualiza y acusa a la pandilla de conspirar para asesinarlo en 2023. @elfaro.net beta.elfaro.net/centroameric...

Arévalo Begins Third Year under State of Siege amid Clashes with 18th Street. New reporting from @elfaroenglish.bsky.social beta.elfaro.net/en/central-a...

Bernardo Arévalo has declared a state of siege while the opposition points to rising insecurity. Arévalo points to “political structures” organizing attacks with the 18th Street gang, which Guatemala and the US designated as a terrorist organization. beta.elfaro.net/en/central-a...

Arévalo abre tercer año de gobierno bajo estado de sitio y enfrentado con el Barrio 18. Con Yuliana Ramazzini y Carlos Barrera en @elfaro.net beta.elfaro.net/centroameric...

By joining our crowdfunding community, you can help El Faro English keep reporting the uncomfortable truth. bit.ly/3TFWLzu

After the U.S. invasion of Venezuela, the Nicaraguan dictatorship tightens state surveillance, Nayib Bukele mocks Maduro to settle a score, and Panama calls for the Venezuelan opposition to be put in charge. beta.elfaro.net/en/elfaro-au...

There is no legal justification for the military incursion into Venezuela. This is probably the greatest damage: finishing off the international order of coexistence among nations established after World War II. #efEditorial beta.elfaro.net/en/opinion-e...

This issue ends on a photo concert set to music by Omnionn, looking at a prolonged new kristallnacht in the United States. Nine photographers reveal how the persecution of immigrants is unfolding during the Trump era. beta.elfaro.net/en/by-invita...

#2025InReview 🗞️ From Nicaragua to Guatemala to El Salvador, a new Central American exile is upon us. Read “Letters on Exile,” our July issue of Central America Monthly: beta.elfaro.net/en/monthly/i...

We're back in the saddle with our first episode of #CentralAmericaInMinutes this year. What did the leaders of Nicaragua, El Salvador, Honduras, Guatemala, Costa Rica, and Panama have to say about Trump's invasion of Venezuela? New episodes every Friday podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/c...

Podcast: The U.S. invasion of Venezuela sends a shockwave through Central America, Trump picks new envoys to Costa Rica and El Salvador, and the number of undocumented migrants passing through the Mexican migrant town Tapachula plummets. #CentralAmericaInMinutes beta.elfaro.net/en/elfaro-au...

Melinda Hildebrand fue nombrada por el presidente Donald Trump como embajadora de Estados Unidos en Costa Rica.

#2025InReview 🗞️ The dictatorships in El Salvador and Nicaragua share a playbook of repression: total power, police states, foreign-agents laws, exiles, and political prisoners. Read “Silencing Dissent,” our June issue of Central America Monthly: beta.elfaro.net/en/issue-jun...

I'm sorry, but I just think it's very telling when we differentiate between ICE's killing of American citizens versus undocumented immigrants. And I'm seeing that a lot right now.

At @elfaroenglish.bsky.social we got off to a busy start this year. In our first newsletter on Saturday night, the @elfaro.net editorial board called Trump's kidnapping of dictator Nicolás Maduro "a direct affront to all Latin Americans." beta.elfaro.net/en/opinion-e...