🎙️CENTRAL AMERICA IN MINUTES, Ep. 39: El Salvador’s Canal 10 has been transformed into a vehicle for institutional propaganda. Since its relaunch in 2020, the public television channel has been remade from a cultural station into a mouthpiece for President Nayib Bukele — a space

In Nicaragua, three days before the anniversary of the Sandinista Revolution, the regime renamed the archive illegally confiscated from @UCAdeNicaragua. Ortega and Murillo are flexing their total control over the national university system.

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It is 2019. Central America’s Pacific maritime migration route has moved north of the Mexico-Guatemala border. The migrants making the crossing have changed, too: Thousands of Africans traverse half the planet to reach the United States.

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Given the initial lack of interest from US officials, documents compiled by Vice Minister Osiris Luna formed the basis of the El Faro investigation that exposed the agreements between MS-13 and the Bukele government.

Since the declaration in 2011 that Honduras was “open for business”, deforestation increased at an alarming rate. Per @InSightCrime, in 2024, the country lost over 40,000 hectares of primary humid forest, one of the highest figures in a decade.

Prior to his murder, a prominent Nicaraguan exile alerted fellow refugees and Costa Rican intelligence authorities about a possible spy network targeting them. Now, his wife also fears for her life, but she has nowhere else to go.

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El Salvador is living under a dictatorship, even if your daily life does not seem to have changed. The long authoritarian night has begun, even if your Instagram is full of trendy spots on sparkling beaches, writes @docAvelar. #efOpinion

El Salvador released the 252 Venezuelan migrants wrongfully deported since March from the United States and as part of a three-country prisoner swap. The Trump administration painted the prisoner swap as a victory.

The Costa Rican opposition has accused the Rodrigo Chaves government of incompetence, claiming a possible Nicaraguan state-sponsored hit squad on their soil is a matter of national security and international law.

Osiris Luna asked US officials in 2020 for asylum, but his enthusiasm waned when he learned the conditions: “You’re going to have to testify before a judge,” recalls a former US diplomat. “That scared him, because he didn’t want to stab Bukele in the back.”.

In Nicaragua, three days before the anniversary of the Sandinista Revolution, the regime renamed the archive illegally confiscated from @UCAdeNicaragua. Ortega and Murillo are flexing their total control over the national university system.

A prisoner exchange sent 252 men deported by Trump from El Salvador back to Venezuela, deforestation and fires in Honduras are increasing due to criminal interests, and the Guatemalan government locked horns with an internationally sanctioned unionist.

After the murder of a prominent Nicaraguan exile, the Costa Rican president has remained silent, while victims of persecution accuse the Nicaraguan regime of running intelligence operations out of its Embassy. The case reflects rising insecurity in Costa Rica.

Nayib Bukele’s director of prisons met in 2020 with US officials to reveal the existence of a government agreement with gangs. He intended not to harm the president, but rather other officials threatening his power in the cabinet.

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Given the initial lack of interest from US officials, documents compiled by Vice Minister Osiris Luna formed the basis of the El Faro investigation that exposed the agreements between MS-13 and the Bukele government.

When you remember that you live in a dictatorship, have some decency, please, writes @docAvelar. For the 412 who have died in prison in El Salvador. For the journalists and professionals who went into exile. #efOpinion.

Since the declaration in 2011 that Honduras was “open for business”, deforestation increased at an alarming rate. Per @InSightCrime , in 2024, the country lost over 40,000 hectares of primary humid forest, one of the highest figures in a decade.