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- Kicked out of the U.S., Salvadoran deportees are struggling simply to stay alive (Livingston Award Finalist and National Press Club Honorable Mention)
- Despite U.S. asylum ban, Honduran women fleeing violence remain undeterred (Long-listed for One World Media Refugee Reporting Award)
- The Coronavirus Pipeline (2nd place in 2020 ICFJ Global Health Crisis Reporting Contest in Transparency, Crime and Corruption category)
- The Coronavirus Pipeline/Between Borders (Long-listed for One World Media Popular Features Award)
- An unlikely band of water defenders fights chronic shortages in El Salvador (Long-listed for One World Media Women’s Solutions Reporting Award)
Washington Post
- El Salvador is now the world’s largest Bitcoin experiment. Salvadorans say they want no part in it.
- U.S. accuses El Salvador of cutting secret deal with MS-13 to tamp down killings
- Central American leaders resisting Biden’s anti-corruption efforts
- What’s causing the migrant surge at the U.S. border? Poverty, violence and new hope under Biden.
- El Salvador’s leader wins control of legislature in midterm vote; critics fear rising authoritarianism
- Category 4 Hurricane Iota slams into Nicaragua
- Hurricane Eta makes landfall in Nicaragua as a fierce Category 4 storm; flood disaster looms
- El Salvador’s government cut deals with MS-13 gang in bid to reduce killings, report says
- Women serving decades-long prison terms for abortion in El Salvador hope change is coming
- Will caravans become ‘new method’ of migration?
- A new migrant caravan from El Salvador is making its way north
- Salvadoran deportee finally reunited with his separated daughter
- Disappeared in El Salvador: The return of a Cold War nightmare
- Photos show El Salvador’s crackdown on imprisoned gang members
- Showdown in El Salvador shows growing role of military in Latin American democracies
- Former mayor Nayib Bukele wins El Salvador’s presidential election
Al Jazeera
- Can a new government dig Honduras out of its hole?
- ‘Change is possible’: Honduras prepares for critical election
- El Salvador constitutional crisis ushers in ‘period of darkness’
- Victims renew calls for justice as El Mozote trial moves ahead
- The abortion cases that could force El Salvador to loosen its ban
- How Nayib Bukele won over voters in an unlikely place
- Political tensions mount in El Salvador before legislative vote
- Honduras strict abortion law: Women judged no matter the verdict
- The informal networks resisting Honduras’s abortion ban
- Honduran women demand protocol for survivors of sex abuse
- In Honduras, women fight for access to the morning-after pill
- Central America: Unrest, repression grow amid coronavirus crisis
- Coronavirus crisis exposes another pandemic in Honduras: Analysts
- Constitutional crisis in El Salvador over Bukele’s security plan
- El Calabozo massacre: Remains of six returned 38 years later
- El Mozote massacre: Waiting for reparations 38 years later
- Ex-Salvadoran soldiers confirm El Mozote massacre victim accounts
- Salvadoran rape victim jailed for stillbirth not guilty of murder
- El Salvador judge expands 1981 El Mozote massacre case
- Male aggressors in El Salvador get prison, and masculinity class
- Women land defenders face ‘extreme criminalisation’, added risks
- Intipuca: A town that relies on remittances braces for end of TPS
- Fighting for the murdered women of Buenos Aires
- Will Colombia’s child soldier recruiters face justice?
The Intercept
- As Salvadoran leaders tout a safer country, more people are going missing
- A family separated between El Salvador and the U.S., first blocked by Trump and then coronavirus
- Despite U.S. asylum ban, Honduran women fleeing violence remain undeterred (long-listed for One World Media Refugee Reporting Award)
Foreign Policy
- Will Honduras’s Hernández Face Justice in New York?
- Biden’s Top Priority in Central America Is Fighting Corruption. That’s an Uphill Battle.
- El Salvador’s Homicide Rate Hit a Historic Low in 2020
- El Salvador’s justice system takes on a historic case
- Guatemala’s new president won’t stop citizens leaving
- El Salvador’s tough policing isn’t what it looks like
- Can El Salvador’s new president fix what’s driving citizens out?
Thomson Reuters Foundation
- In Honduras, first woman president faces tough fight on abortion
- Nicaraguan coffee farmers brew fresh plans after hurricanes wreck harvests
- Honduran LGBT+ advocates in legal bid to stop same-sex marriage ‘lock’
- Honduran abortion rights activists vow to fight on after setback
- Fishermen fight to keep land as El Salvador chases surfers
- ‘No democracy without women’: Priced out of politics in El Salvador
National Geographic
- Deported migrants struggle to start over in a place that doesn’t feel like home
- For young Hondurans, a ‘collective despair’ pervades life
- An unlikely band of water defenders fights chronic shortages in El Salvador
Time
- Mexican asylum seekers are facing long waits at the U.S. border. Advocates say that’s illegal
- ‘He went seeking life but found death.’ How a Guatemalan teen fleeing climate change ended up dying in a U.S. detention center
- ‘He proposes peace, but invades women’s bodies.’ Inside the allegations against Costa Rica’s former president and Nobel Laureate
Christian Science Monitor
- El Salvador questions role of past atrocities in creating new future
- How citizen observers saved Honduran democracy from violence
- Under government attack, Salvadoran judges seek international remedy
- To battle drug traffickers, Argentina takes a risk and uses military
- Retrial of ex-dictator Rios Montt: Will a changed Guatemala shine through?
- Guatemala: Anti-corruption spirit ebbs ahead of elections. Can it be revived?
The Guardian
- Anti-graft candidate poised to win El Salvador presidency
- A young family left El Salvador for a better life. Their tragedy encapsulates the immigration crisis
- Salvadorans await justice in civil war killings as one of its first victims sainted
- ‘Finally, they will pay’: justice beckons for survivors of El Salvador massacre
- Migrant caravan seen as safer option for travelling: ‘Going alone is risky’
- Campaigners fear creeping privatisation of El Salvador’s water
- Would you give a job to this gangster?
World Politics Review
- Kicked out of the U.S., Salvadoran deportees are struggling simply to stay alive (Livingston Award Finalist and National Press Club Honorable Mention)
- Abortion rights activists have made strides in Latin America. Is a backlash coming?
- Are El Salvador and Guatemala seeking justice for war crimes, or trying to cover them up?
The Daily Beast
- Judgment Day’s coming for U.S.-backed troops who slaughtered men, women, and so many children at El Mozote
- Meet the Central Americans that Washington, D.C. can’t live without
- Amid the rubble of Mexico’s big quake, many helping hands
- Deporting people to their doom in murderous Central America
- Witnesses expose Ronald Reagan’s dirty secret in Guatemala
- Cubans still fleeing Castro while they can
Mongabay
- Contentious Guatemala nickel mine ‘ignores coronavirus lockdown’
- Guatemala: An Indigenous community rejects, then accepts, a protected area
- Chocolate and agroforestry accelerate in El Salvador
VICE
- Salvadorans Lacked Running Water During the Pandemic. Then Came the Hurricane
- Environmental Activists Keep Getting Murdered in Honduras
- Inside a Court Room Specialized in Justice for Gender Violence
- The ‘Feminist Brigade’ Searching for People Trapped in Rubble in Mexico
- ‘I Didn’t Have Anywhere to Run’: Migrant Women Are Facing a Rape Epidemic
The Texas Observer
Texas Monthly
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