Who Will Find El Salvador’s Dead?

Location data collected from mobile apps and digital advertising can reveal habits, interests and almost any other aspect of someone's life. In this report, we uncover how a geolocation surveillance system called Webloc uses ad-based data to monitor hundreds of millions of people across the globe.

Roman Gressier writes in El Faro English on the allegations of historical illegal adoptions and the alleged role of a high-ranking official in Guatemala, namely the current Attorney General, Consuelo Porras. It appears that a record of the position in which she signed off on them is absent from her re-election portfolio. Information recently submitted to a United Nations group of experts implicates Guatemala’s Attorney General, Consuelo Porras, in at least 80 “allegations of illegal adoptions” committed by the State between 1968 and 1996.

Information is dissent. Truth is dissent. And the rigorous production of information is considered dangerous. Journalism is resistance.

While writing my MA thesis at the University of Hamburg on ideological bias in Salvadoran newspapers, I read Rick Rockwell's book, Media Power in Central America. At the time, in the late 2000s, Rockw...

Information is dissent. Truth is dissent. And the rigorous production of information is considered dangerous. Journalism is resistance.

A recent podcast on El Faro English, with Yuliana Ramazzini and Gabriel Labrador, presents among CA items, the news that U.N. experts have tied the internationally sanctioned Guatemalan Attorney General Consuelo Porras to an illegal adoption scheme. You can read the piece with links, including to the podcast, here, U.N. Experts Warn of Illegal Adoptions Tied to Guatemalan Attorney General.

With crimes against humanity in El Salvador on full international display, Bukele denounces the findings as a “coordinated” conspiracy. In Honduras, Chinese relations hang in the balance with the new ...

The Shield of the Americas seeks to impose a militarized agenda against drug trafficking. In return, Trump rewards certain leaders, from traditional conservatives to crypto-authoritarians, with a semb...

On Monday, 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, announcin...

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 migra...

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 migra...

Washington, D.C., February 24, 2026 - After a decade-long investigation and a trial lasting more than five weeks, a federal court in Ottawa has ruled to revoke the Canadian citizenship of a Guatemalan...

The Defense Department did not provide evidence of its claim that the vessel was carrying drugs. At least 150 people have been killed in the campaign since September.

In Washington, Bukele has focused lobbying efforts on courting MAGA politicians and “positioning key narratives” in U.S. media. He’s now paying for it through a public electricity company that shields...

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, recentl...

Trump sends mixed signals to Nicaragua on trade, sanctions, and anti-narcotics. Costa Rican President-elect Laura Fernández floats a state of exception modeled after El Salvador. Guatemala and El Salv...

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 amba...

Minneapolis has become ground zero for the Trump administration’s war on immigrants and the growing resistance to it.

Polling positions Laura Fernández, Rodrigo Chaves’ former minister, to win the presidency in Costa Rica, the National Party takes the reins of Congress in Honduras, and Spain releases journalist Diego...

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...

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 ...

El Gobierno de 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 individuali...

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 ...

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 ...

Bernardo Arévalo ha declarado un estado de sitio mientras la oposición reclama un aumento de inseguridad durante el último año. Arévalo señala a “estructuras políticas” de organizar atentados junto co...

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…

The United States’ attack on Venezuela and the kidnapping of dictator Nicolás Maduro and his wife are a direct affront to all Latin Americans. Trump has not liberated Venezuela; he has seized it.

This photo concert, set to music by Omnionn, looks at a prolonged new kristallnacht in the United States. Nine photographers reveal how the persecution of immigrants is unfolding during the Trump era.

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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 migr...