El Salvador
At least 12 people dead after crowd crush at football stadium in El Salvador
At least 12 people have died and more than 100 were injured in a crush at the Estadio Cuscatlán in San Salvador, the nation’s capital
Reuters and Guardian sport
21, May, 2023 @11:01 AM
‘They found hell’: innocent foreigners caught in El Salvador’s mass arrests
Rights groups say thousands of innocent people are being caught up in gang crackdown
Luke Taylor in Bogotá
16, May, 2023 @11:40 AM
US-Mexico migration deal raises fears for struggling border cities
Agreement designed to curb increase of people arriving into US marks dramatic precedent for two countries, experts say
Oscar Lopez in Mexico City
05, May, 2023 @11:10 AM
El Salvador news outlet relocates to Costa Rica to avoid Bukele’s crackdown
El Faro moves its headquarters to avoid ‘fabricated accusations’ after 25 years reporting on drug wars, crime and corruption
Luke Taylor
19, Apr, 2023 @9:30 AM
Environmental defenders reel from Mexico and Central America attacks
At least two dozen activists in Indigenous and rural areas murdered, disappeared and jailed in wave of attacks
Nina Lakhani and Analy Nuño in Guadalajara
10, Apr, 2023 @10:30 AM
‘Historic moment’ as El Salvador abortion case fuels hopes for expanded access across Latin America
Human rights court hears seriously ill woman denied procedure as advocates call for change in region with world’s most restrictive abortion laws
Julia Zulver in San Salvador
24, Mar, 2023 @7:00 AM
The Whisper of Silence review – coffee-taster drama makes most of stunning locations
Alfonso Quijada’s feature follows a young woman gifted with an extraordinary sense of smell. It looks great, but fails to satisfy
Leslie Felperin
20, Mar, 2023 @11:00 AM
El Salvador crackdown breaks the gangs – at huge cost to human rights
War on gangs by populist leader Nayib Bukele has produced extraordinary change, but ‘the cure could be as harmful as the disease’
Jaime Quintanilla in Soyapango and Tom Phillips
20, Feb, 2023 @10:30 AM
Salvadoran environmental defenders detained for decades-old crimes
Activists worry the arrests are a move by the cash-strapped government to open the country to now banned metals mining
Nina Lakhani in Mexico City
14, Jan, 2023 @11:00 AM
China circles El Salvador’s economy as country edges toward crypto plunge
President Nayib Bukele bet on bitcoin and its tumbling value has put the Central American country in a financially precarious spot
Mat Youkee
15, Nov, 2022 @10:30 AM
Weather tracker: following the path of Hurricane Julia
Julia passed from the Atlantic to the Pacific, killing 25 people; plus, flash floods in south-east Australia
James Parrish and Azure Prior
14, Oct, 2022 @9:58 AM
Javier Zamora: ‘Now the chances of me crossing the border and surviving would be slim’
The Salvadorian poet on his journey to the US as a nine-year-old, the exciting literature coming from his homeland – and why he is indebted to Dave Eggers
Killian Fox
10, Sep, 2022 @5:00 PM
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