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Roman Gressier @romangressier.com · 24/02/2026

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

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Roman Gressier @romangressier.com · 09/02/2026

“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/

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Roman Gressier @romangressier.com · 07/01/2026

Subscribe to our newsletter for stories every week from Central America: elfaro.net/suscribe/en/

Former Constitutional Chamber magistrate Sidney Blanco (left) joins a September 2021 march in El Salvador against the purge of 30 percent of judges ordered by the Bukele-controlled Legislative Assembly. Photo: Víctor Peña/El Faro

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Roman Gressier @romangressier.com · 30/11/2025

Want to know what's really going on in the Honduran elections, beyond all the headlines and sloganeering? On the @elfaroenglish.bsky.social homepage you'll find the simmering political crisis, Trump's announced pardon of JOH, New York v. Juan Orlando, and more. elfaro.net/en

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Roman Gressier @romangressier.com · 20/02/2025

📸 In this week's @elfaroenglish.bsky.social newsletter, see our four-part special: “Disappeared in El Salvador”, a photojournalism curation of 50 photos on the evolution of violence from the civil war to gang control to the state of exception. mailchi.mp/elfaro.net/p...

Members of Comandos de Salvamento searched Arenal Monserrat for something that would identify Carlos Abarca: the brown shoes, white shirt or blue pants he was wearing when he disappeared. The rescuers moved rocks, removed trash and dug through the mud. They found no clues as to Carlos’ whereabouts.

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Roman Gressier @romangressier.com · 27/11/2024

Biden sanctions have done little to curb the surge of toxic mining and settler violence in #Nicaragua under the purportedly socialist Ortega dictatorship — to the resounding benefit of US and Canadian corporations, writes @maxgranger.info in @elfaroenglish.bsky.social. 👉 elfaro.net/en/202411/op...

Miners carry sacks with rocks to be crushed, in order to extract gold, in the "IRON" gold mine some 10 km from the town of Rosita in the North Caribbean Coast Autonomous Region in northeast Nicaragua. The United States imposed sanctions on Nicaragua's General Directorate of Mines on October 24, 2022, saying it finances the regime of President Daniel Ortega and his wife, Vice President Rosario Murillo. Photo: Inti Ocon/AFP

Aerial view of the town of Bonanza and gold and silver mines in the North Caribbean Coast Autonomous Region in northeast Nicaragua on Mar. 8, 2017. Photo Inti Ocon/AFP

Relatives, friends, and fellow miners wait as rescuers try to reach a group of miners trapped in a gold mine in the community of El Comal, near Bonanza in northeastern Nicaragua, on Aug. 29, 2014. Photo Inti Ocon/AFP

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Roman Gressier @romangressier.com · 22/11/2024

Today’s #CentralAmericaInMinutes: Reports of crimes by the Honduran police abound under the state of exception, the Nicaraguan regime moves to make Ortega and Murillo “co-presidents”, and DHS acquires spyware in the US like those deployed in El Salvador and Panama. 🎙️ open.spotify.com/episode/2Qzz...

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Roman Gressier @romangressier.com · 21/11/2024

After meeting with White House, Colombian ambassador tells press that US funds were used to purchase Pegasus spyware in Colombia in cash, to "avoid traceability," and that US officials "supervis[ed]" use but did not inform then-president Iván Duque. estadosunidos.embajada.gov.co/newsroom/new...

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Roman Gressier @romangressier.com · 18/11/2024

🧵 #CentralAmericaInMinutes: Rodrigo Chaves awards Nayib Bukele Costa Rica’s highest diplomatic honors, Donald Trump taps Marco Rubio at State and Matt Gaetz at the DOJ, and Daniel Ortega expels the head of the Episcopal Conference of Nicaragua. 🎙️ open.spotify.com/episode/0lXN...

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Roman Gressier @romangressier.com · 17/11/2024

For more photojournalism that sheds a light on Central America, subscribe to our weekly newsletter 👉elfaro.net/suscribe/en/ And consider becoming an El Faro English crowdfunder to support independent journalism in the region 🙏 support.elfaro.net

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Roman Gressier @romangressier.com · 17/11/2024

We curated 47 stunning photos by Víctor Peña, Carlos Barrera, Fred Ramos, and Diego Rosales. 👀 We also added a photojournalism section to our homepage, elfaro.net/en. Scroll to "Snapshots" for more photography from El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras and Nicaragua.

Catarina Solís, 64 years old in 2019. Her parents, her two brothers, and her husband were disappeared in 1983 and have been missing ever since. Catarina says that the military raped her, beat her, and burned down her home. Today, she continues to demand justice, in the community of Sajbata, in Nebaj. Photo: Víctor Peña/El Faro

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Roman Gressier @romangressier.com · 17/11/2024

Ixil Dignity Four decades ago, the Maya Ixil people were crushed by the Guatemalan Army as it perpetrated massacres across Ixil territory in Quiché, some 300km from Guatemala City. Now retired General Benedicto Lucas is standing trial for some of those crimes. elfaro.net/en/202410/ef...

Residents of the village Cocop in Nebaj, Quiché, commence a communal meeting with prayer in the Ixil language. Men and women gather in this place nestled between dusty paths in the mountains. This is where one of the first massacres was registered: The Guatemalan Army murdered 77 people here on Apr. 16, 1981. Photo Víctor Peña/El Faro

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Roman Gressier @romangressier.com · 17/11/2024

The Forgotten Midwives of Chiquimula Brenda buried her daughter in 2020. She has not visited her grave. “I gave everything for her. Now I must take care of my other three children.” In rural Guatemala, Brenda represents many women abandoned by their partners and the state elfaro.net/en/202410/ef...

Brenda’s daughter Jazmín lived only two years, mostly between hospitals in Chiquimula, Zacapa, and Guatemala City. “In the capital, they did all the tests and told me it was pneumonia. That was all. When I took her to intensive care, she was nine months old and weighed 16 pounds. When she came out, she was 16 months old and weighed 13 pounds. She lost weight in the hospital. Maybe because of all the blood they were taking,” says Brenda. She and her husband work as day laborers on farms near their home, where they make about Q80 a day (a little over $10). Photo: Víctor Peña/El Faro

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Roman Gressier @romangressier.com · 17/11/2024

The “Sons of Chaos” Seek to Start Anew at El Brit El Brit, a center for people recovering from addictions in downtown San Salvador, is supported by a small shop and donations. It was born four years ago and, amid the precarity, serves nearly one hundred people at a time. elfaro.net/en/202410/ef...

Mauricio Benítez is originally from Santa Rosa de Lima, La Unión, in El Salvador. His sister called El Brit for them to take him to a rehabilitation center. Mauricio, 42, has trouble speaking. According to El Brit’s volunteer staff, this can be attributed to alcohol abuse. “Look, I was drinking uncontrollably, and I was selling away my belongings. Now I have to stay here until December. All I want is to see my mother,” he explained while smoking a cigarette. Photo Carlos Barrera/El Faro

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Roman Gressier @romangressier.com · 16/11/2024

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A red-orange moon casts its reflection over Lake Atitlán in Sololá, Guatemala. April 2024. Photo by Roman Gressier.

Lush forest in a ravine on the outskirts of Guatemala City, in the Guatemalan highlands. August 2024. Photo by Roman Gressier.

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Roman Gressier @romangressier.com · 15/11/2024

🎙️ Central America in Minutes: Rodrigo Chaves awards Nayib Bukele Costa Rica’s highest diplomatic honors, Donald Trump taps Marco Rubio at State and Matt Gaetz at the DOJ, and Daniel Ortega expels the head of the Episcopal Conference of Nicaragua. open.spotify.com/episode/0lXN...

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Roman Gressier @romangressier.com · 19/10/2024

🎙️ Coming next week: Central America in Minutes, a podcast from El Faro English where we cover our breaking investigations, the splashiest headlines and the stories swept underneath the rug. 🎧 Streaming every Friday on Spotify, Apple, Amazon, YouTube and iHeartRadio. open.spotify.com/episode/1026...

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Roman Gressier @romangressier.com · 23/01/2024

🇸🇻 Rising food costs, crop failures, and a lack of agricultural subsidies have increased the numbers of Salvadorans forced to skip meals. Now the state of exception has left thousands of families with less income. Read on in this El Faro English special: especiales.elfaro.net/en/hunger/

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Roman Gressier @romangressier.com · 23/01/2024

El Faro English translates Central America. Subscribe here: elfaro.net/suscribe/en/

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Roman Gressier @romangressier.com · 22/11/2023

👀 Corrupt Guatemalan judge asks Musk’s X for data on accounts critical of government, including three news outlets and an opposition legislator who died of cancer in September. Requested data includes IP, MAC, routing info; name, address, phone of account creator lahora.gt/nacionales/l...

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Roman Gressier @romangressier.com · 21/11/2023

“Entre el periodismo de los que no se comprometen con nada y el periodismo fogoso que se vuelve propaganda, hay un camino medio: el del periodista que muestra hechos y los hace entender”. —Javier Darío Restrepo Foto: Fundación Gabo

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