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The New Yorker, April 2025. An MS-13 leader knew key details of a secret deal that his gang allegedly made with the Salvadoran President—then the White House put him on a flight to El Salvador. By now, the images of Donald Trump’s March 15th flights to El Salvador are all too familiar: shackled Venezuelans being... Continue Reading →
The Dial, October 2024. ✺ On May 4, 2021, Vice President Kamala Harris stood on a podium at the Washington Conference on the Americas and took aim at the government of El Salvador, headed by President Nayib Bukele. Just three days before the conference, he — along with the Legislative Assembly of El Salvador, controlled... Continue Reading →
Drilled and Contracorriente, October 2024. With Fernando Silva. Jennifer Ávila contributed reporting; photos by Fernando Destephen. Disponible en español. Honduran environmentalist Juan López had a priestly calm. His steady gaze and his way of speaking, polite but direct, were notable whether he was philosophizing with friends or leading a protest. Although he knew well the... Continue Reading →
The New Yorker, April 2024. On the afternoon of February 4th, as Salvadorans were voting in Presidential and legislative elections, a fifty-seven-year-old writer named Carlos Bucio Borja walked into a polling place near his home in the capital and began to read the constitution aloud. The sitting President, Nayib Bukele, was seeking a second consecutive mandate, which legal... Continue Reading →
Febrero 2024. Queridos lectores, Este es un post un poco distinto. No es un artículo, sino una carta. Les quiero compartir algo que hemos construido con mis queridas colegas de Contracorriente: un portal de documentos y análisis de los juicios estadounidenses contra el narcoestado hondureño. Esté donde esté usted en este momento, a lo mejor... Continue Reading →
Foreign Policy, November 2023. As part of the OCCRP project, "The Dictators' Bank." El Salvador’s president, Nayib Bukele, speaks during a joint news conference with the U.S. Ambassador to El Salvador Ronald Johnson in San Salvador on May 26, 2020. YURI CORTEZ/AFP VIA GETTY IMAGES One September morning three years ago, the U.S. Senate Committee on... Continue Reading →
CLIP and Contracorriente, February 2022. With Jennifer Ávila and María Teresa Ronderos. El artículo original se encuentra después de la traducción al inglés. Ilustración: Candy Carvajal. The following is a translation of the original Spanish. Two non-profits, two diplomats, and the circle around the former Honduran president. As detained former Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernández... Continue Reading →
Contracorriente, July 2020. With Jennifer Ávila. In English here. La pandemia cayó al mundo del fraude. La compra de los hospitales móviles y otras irregularidades en el manejo de la pandemia en Honduras pone en evidencia algo que ha sido muy común en el fraude, la evasión de impuestos y el lavado de activos: las... Continue Reading →
Equal Times, March 2020. En español, français. Photographs by Martín Cálix. On an average day, Joel Almendares is counselling Honduran middle and high school students about how to excel in school and plan their futures. But he is also fighting off worries about violent attacks on himself and his unionised colleagues. Almendares is secretary general... Continue Reading →
The Intercept, Diciembre 2019. In English here. Leia em português. Con Chiara Eisner. Ya pasaron más de tres años desde que Berta Cáceres fue asesinada en su casa en Honduras. Cáceres era una activista de 44 años, madre y una celebridad mundial —recibió el Premio Ambiental Goldman en el año 2015 por dirigir una campaña... Continue Reading →
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