Bryan Avelar
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- Sep 13, 2026
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And he never came back’: In El Salvador, mothers desperately search for the disappeared (opens the original)
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Shortly after 9:00 p.m. on August 4, 2021, Herbert Argueta got up from the chair where he had spent the last six hours answering calls at his computer. It was his 30-minute break from his call center shift — a job he did from home. It had been raining heavily that night. He decided to go outside for a walk. He glanced out the door and saw that his neighbor’s store was closed. So, he walked to the next one — about a third of a mile away — to buy some juice. “I’ll be right back,” he told his mothe
MS-13 gang members say they buried 200 people in Bukele’s political cradle (opens the original)
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Three members of the Mara Salvatrucha (MS-13) gang, testifying under a cooperation agreement with Salvadoran prosecutors, admitted during the mass trial of 486 alleged leaders of the criminal organization that between 2013 and 2021 they tortured, murdered and buried more than 200 people at Finca Suiza. The wooded area, located in the municipality of Nuevo Cuscatlán, occupies a unique place in El Salvador’s political history: it was there that Nayib Bukele’s political career began in 2012 and whe
Mass trials without due process in El Salvador: ‘Judges are afraid. They’re convicting everyone’ (opens the original)
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“As a defense attorney, I have done everything possible, everything established by law to prove my clients’ innocence, but it’s useless,” says a disheartened Salvadoran lawyer. “There is nothing to be done.” He is one of hundreds of private defense lawyers involved in the so-called “mass trials,” the controversial mechanism through which El Salvador’s justice system has begun handing down sentences to thousands of people prosecuted under the state of emergency imposed by President Nayib Bukele.
Honduras under Nasry Asfura: State cuts, violence and the shadow of Juan Orlando Hernández (opens the original)
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Nasry Asfura came to Honduras’s presidency with a promise that would define the course of his administration: to shrink the State to make it leaner and more “efficient” in a country of 11 million people. At a modest inauguration ceremony on January 27, following elections marred by allegations of irregularities, the new president, backed by U.S. President Donald Trump, asked to be judged by his actions and pledged to get to work immediately. Six months later, with a record tarnished by inefficie
Nayib Bukele’s route to erasing limits on power in El Salvador (opens the original)
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Nayib Bukele had a categorical stance on the rules of democratic play in El Salvador: “A person can be president 80 times, if they want, but not consecutively. That is to guarantee they do not use their power to stay in power,” he stated in 2013, when he governed the modest municipality of Nuevo Cuscatlán. Thirteen years later, that warning became prophecy: Bukele has just formalized his candidacy for a third consecutive term. The paradox is not the result of a sudden ideological shift or an une
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